Le baseball est le seul sport dans lequel vous pouvez avoir un taux d’échec de 70 %, et non seulement vous pouvez conserver votre emploi, mais potentiellement être considéré comme un membre du Temple de la renommée. Mais est-ce plus difficile que d’être cornerback ?
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Hockey goalie?
« I do it every day and I cant hit that thing »
Bunting counts don’t it?
While I agree that hitting a baseball (especially from a mlb pitcher) is probably the hardest thing, I disagree that there aren’t mistakes from the pitcher and lucky hits. There are check swings or even times when the batter is getting out of the way and the ball hits the bat by accident and goes for a hit.
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Why tf is Mookie Betts being asked this? Deion Sanders played in the NFL and MLB. He is considered one of the greatest lockdown CBs of all time. And even he’s said baseball is harder. Mf faced Jerry Rice multiple times and still said hitting is harder.
Dropping corner back in this conversation at all is crazy. Much respect to those athletes, but being a CB is only as hard as the receiver is good. I can’t run a <5-40 or leap 30″ into the air like NFL receivers can, but I can track a football in the air and defend it from another human.
Hitting a major league pitch at all is super human shit. I think we should all be baffled that the average fit adult can probably roll out of bed and take a round pole and hit a white ball that’s moving 50ish. Literally making any contact on 90+ mph is incomprehensible. Making *good* contact?!?! Then adding in secondary pitches?!?!?!?!
If he had said something like hockey goalie or F1 driver or something else that involves otherworldly hand-eye coordination and reflexes I’d be more receptive. CB is an answer somebody only gives if they have an agenda.
It’s not even really a 70% failure rate. After all, you get 3 strikes per at bat to succeed. 30% x 1/3 gets you a 10% success rate on hitting strikes.
It gets a little more complicated once you start including stuff like not swinging at balls and foul balls increasing opportunities (but the fact that a foul is a negative outcome most of the time makes it harder so eh). But just swinging the bat and hitting a strike — the balls you’re *supposed* to hit — without worrying about all the other skills it takes, a 10% success rate (with otherwise average hit type distribution as obviously only ever getting singles is bad) gets your ass in the hall of fame lol.
This is probably more comparable in difficulty to stuff like scoring in Football (Soccer) or Hockey when it comes to success rate. Shot conversion rate averages around 10% in those professional leagues, give or take a few percentage points, but those numbers are a bit odd because players will often take bad shots just to get shots off whereas that’s the opposite of the skill in baseball. There are also individual kinds of plays that have lower success rates (hail mary and such) but those aren’t the day to day expected skill. And 10% is the average team/player, rather than a hall of fame level production.
And all of this flies in the face of how individual a skill baseball is. While lineup protection is sort of a thing, it’s way less impactful than, say, being a goalie with a great defensive team in front of you or scoring off great assists. That stuff doesn’t happen in Baseball. Just you and a pitcher.
Guy thinks the thing he does is the hardest thing, news at 11.
>Baseball is the only sport that you can have a 70% failure rate, and not only can you keep your job, but potentially be considered a Hall of Famer.
You can be unsuccessful in a lot of sports at a 70% rate and still do great. Hockey teams usually have a shooting percentage around 10%. The league leader is usually someone who shoots in the low-20% range. There hasn’t been a season above 30% since 1990-91. Alex Ovechkin has a career 13.1%
my vote goes to scoring a goal in the NHL. even if you take out the skating, you have to score on a 6ft+ goalie with massive pads and insane athleticism.
What do you mean? It’s very easy to hit a baseball I see Redditors saying it all the time s/
Hockey is the hardest sport. Getting a goal is the toughest skill.
If they were hitting baseballs while on skates with the threat of a large defensive player about to take their head off, I’d agree with Mookie.
The very best hitters only get a hit 35% of the time
I was like « These guests aren’t adding much to Mookie’s conversation here » and then I remembered they are actually the paid hosts of this program
Baseball is the only sport where if you’re successful 25% of the time, it can be considered a success
Is that a mookie betts hat or market basket?
[Narrator] He did not settle the debate. In fact, the debate would continue to be had for decades.
That hardest thing to do can’t be “play a position”. No doubt in all of sports CB is one of the hardest. Hitting a major league pitcher is as impossible feat for an average Joe as compared to any other single sports action.
Incredible success is getting a hit 30% of the time.
Is hockey never in this conversation?