Best Baseball Player Ever (Hitter)

[JoshB.]

Thought this would be an interesting topic and I haven't seen it on here before. Who do you think was the best hitter ever? This is overall (contact, power, speed, fielding, arm). If you voted other, please specify.

 

[pghbuccos]

Ted Williams

 

[scotty21690]

Best hitter: Ty Cobb
Best power hitter: Babe Ruth
Best overall hitter: Ted Williams

 

[Wes]

Comparing across generations is really hard but I would take Barry in his prime against pitchers of any era. There was a great article about the at bat against Gagne when Gagne was throwing 101.

 

[Jays_Cards]

Ted Williams pretty convincingly...

 

[Wes]

Thought this would be an interesting topic and I haven't seen it on here before. Who do you think was the best hitter ever? This is overall (contact, power, speed, fielding, arm). If you voted other, please specify.

Also what does fielding or arm have to do with hitting?

 

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No question the most complete hitter is Ted Williams. If he didn't lose those prime years due to the military, it would have been scary the numbers that he would have put up.

 

[darocker80]

Lead off: Ricky Henderson and Ichiro
Overall: Barry Bonds, willie mays, ted williams, manny
power: babe ruth

 

[KOBEARODLT]

Thought this would be an interesting topic and I haven't seen it on here before. Who do you think was the best hitter ever? This is overall (contact, power, speed, fielding, arm). If you voted other, please specify.

Also what does fielding or arm have to do with hitting?

same thing i was trying to figure out haha

 

[jeremy]

ty cobb leads williams in every stat besides home runs

cobb played in dead ball era. led the league with 9 hrs once

 

[sportscardtheory]

Comparing across generations is really hard but I would take Barry in his prime against pitchers of any era. There was a great article about the at bat against Gagne when Gagne was throwing 101.

...and they were both juiced.

 

[mburgin]

Comparing across generations is really hard but I would take Barry in his prime against pitchers of any era. There was a great article about the at bat against Gagne when Gagne was throwing 101.

...and they were both juiced.

hand/eye coordination to hit the baseball doesn't have a thing to do with power or bulk created from steroids.

 

[bigpapiMA32]

ty cobb leads williams in every stat besides home runs

Probably wouldn't if he hadn't missed the years for the war.

Most projections say that war years included Williams would have hit between 700-710 home runs.

 

[ostrander111]

Honus Wagner

 

[Brett Keith]

Teddy Ballgame.

Pujols is the best I've ever seen though. Just amazing.

 

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Comparing across generations is really hard but I would take Barry in his prime against pitchers of any era. There was a great article about the at bat against Gagne when Gagne was throwing 101.

...and they were both juiced.

hand/eye coordination to hit the baseball doesn't have a thing to do with power or bulk created from steroids.

I guess then they shouldn't call them "performance enhancing" drugs...I don't know what the purpose of taking them were..

 

[Mighty Bombjack]

ty cobb leads williams in every stat besides home runs

cobb played in dead ball era. led the league with 9 hrs once

Cobb's .433 lifetime OBP vs. Williams' .482 is pretty significant

 

[scotty21690]

Honus Wagner

Caleb, may I ask why you chose him? Ty Cobb is [IMO] 10x better than Wagner, and I would put Tris Speaker above Wagner as well....would like to hear your reasoning though..

 

[ostrander111]

Honus Wagner

Caleb, may I ask why you chose him? Ty Cobb is [IMO] 10x better than Wagner, and I would put Tris Speaker above Wagner as well....would like to hear your reasoning though..

During his time he retired with more of everything except Home runs than ANY other NL player...won 8 batting titles and batted 300 17 straight years

 

[scotty21690]

ty cobb leads williams in every stat besides home runs

cobb played in dead ball era. led the league with 9 hrs once

Cobb's .433 lifetime OBP vs. Williams' .482 is pretty significant

Ted Williams had the best batting eye of all time....3/1 BB:K ratio is insane!