Daddybo
Hitting is indeed the most important tool for a position player
Blue Dog would you not agree that some of the best hitters in MLB are average MLB fielders? Now how do you take that out of the equation? As far as great pitching vs great hitting, some times the hitting wins and sometimes the pitching wins. And sometimes the hitting wins ands still looses. How many ropes are caught? Hitter has a great ab and hits a seed that is right at someone. You can win the battle at the plate and still get out right? I take the pitching in the long run. I love hitting and feel that for a posistion player it is what separates kids. If you take the best kids from an area and put them on a field together the one thing that will make one stand out over the others is the bat.
This probably can't be argued successfully either way.....I do agree with most of what you say, Coach May.....
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Originally posted by Coach May:
My team vs your team to prove the point.
My team The best starting pitchers in MLB. The best bull pen in MLB. The best closer in MLB.
My team avg MLB hitters.
My team avg MLB defense.
Your team average MLB starting pitching. Average MLB bullpen. Average MLB closer.
Your team the best hitters in MLB baseball.
Your team avg MLB defense.
Until you put it this way, I was ready to join the "pitchers" side. But in today's game, with today's hitters, strike zone, baseball, field dimensions, etc., I'll take the hitting team. I think my average MLB pitchers against your average MLB hitters will hold you to an average number of runs per game, but if I can have the 10 best hitters against the game's best pitchers, I think we score more than the average number of runs and win more often than not. Just my opinion, though, and I don't think I would have felt the same way 20 years ago.
Got home and asked my son the same question -- he said he'd take the pitchers' team, no question!