What i mean is someone that is an incredible player that’s very popular and has won a ton of awards but hasn’t been able to win a championship.

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    11 months ago

    The weird thing about the comparison is that Ohtani has 2 things he’s top 10 or so in (batting and pitching). If you correlate batting and pitching to having unique offensive skills (e.g. scoring + playmaking) then Harden is a pretty close comparison. The issue is that someone being a top 10 scorer and playmaker in basketball is significantly more common than someone being a top 10 pitcher and batter.

    The same goes for if you correlate pitching and batting to offense and defense. In the last 30 years alone Kawhi, Kobe, Duncan, Hakeem, DRob, KG, CP3, Pippen, Jordan, Dwight, Bron, etc. all could qualify as being top 10 in offense and defense at some point.

    I just don’t think the comparison works.

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      11 months ago

      genuine question, what are some other things in baseball you can be top 10 at besides pitching and batting? probably something along the lines of baseball IQ but what else?