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Adam Ottavino waving at Shohei who is probably the most likeable player in baseball is honestly such a clown move. Show some class before you act like you owned a guy that shows the upmost respect to all his opponents who won the at-bat if it wasnt for analytics lol.
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Adam Ottavino reportedly 'got pretty annoyed' by Red Sox teammates not taking COVID protocol seriously
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After Adam Ottavino caused a minor stir with his "I'd strike Babe Ruth out every time" quip, I saw asking the opposite question. And I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.
[This very grainy clip] () was the only footage I could find of Ruth's pitching. Either that's a changeup, or Jamie Moyer would be burned at the stake for throwing 85 miles per hour from the left side.
The obvious first question - how has Adam Ottavino done as a hitter in his professional career? Well, he hasn't swung a bat for money since 2013, so that's not a great start. And in his twenty-eight career plate appearances, he has recorded two singles, one walk, and seventeen strikeouts.
(Quick tangent: The one walk in Adam Ottavino's career as a batter came in 2010, when he was a rookie with the Cardinals. This is probably a good indicator of why I've never heard of Manny Parra before today.)
So, Ottavino would probably be a terrible hitter, even against Babe Ruth and his blazing 80 mph fast ball. But then again, I might be selling The Babe short. Let's see how he did as a pitcher a full century ago... and it would appear he struck out a whopping [nine point three percent] () of all batters that he faced in his career.
In Babe Ruth's best season as a pitcher, 1916, he struck out 170 batters in 323 innings, good for a 13.1% strikeout rate. In his final major league season in 2012, Jamie Moyer had a 14.2% strikeout rate, while pitching for the Colorado Rockies at age 49 and topping out at velocities not even high enough to get speeding tickets.
The final sample - hitter strikeout rates in general. Among qualified hitters in 1916, the highest strikeout rate was held by a guy named Gavvy Cravath, who made up for his abominable 16.7% strikeout rate by batting .283/.379/.440 with eleven home runs and 70 runs batted in, good for a 149 wRC+ and 4.1 WAR. Some fellow named Hornsby had an 11.5% strikeout rate, which actually puts him eleventh-highest on
In conclusion, I can't believe I put energy into trying to figure this out. Also, Adam Ottavino would win MVP awards if you asked him to be a hitter in 1916. I have no evidence for this, but I firmly believe it.
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