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EPISODE · Sep 5, 2018 · 35 MIN

(10) Gehrig Versus Pujols: Are Today's Players Actually Better? A New Way to Answer an Old Question

from The Baseball Rabbi Podcast · host Pesach Wolicki and Scott Kahn

It's an old parlor game: compare Babe Ruth to Barry Bonds, or Lou Gehrig to Albert Pujols. We can calculate that the older players were generally greater than their peers in a way that modern greats are not; but the Baseball Rabbi, Pesach Wolicki, offers a new way of viewing the entire question which demonstrates that today's players are the best in the history of the game. (Even Johnny Unitas and Julius Erving come up in this discussion...) In addition, Pesach and Scott Kahn analyze the unfair tragedy of the Twins, and derive lessons in team building from, of all teams, the 2003 Detroit Tigers.

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