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Yogi Berra and Bryce Harper

DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
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I have a lot of respect for both players for their on field ability.

While watching the Met game tonight I heard an interesting stat. YES, the game is a LOT different now than it was 60 years ago, but Bryce Harper has more career STRIKEOUTS than Yogi did (439 and 414).
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  • addicted2ebayaddicted2ebay Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow that's quite a stat.image
  • DrFongDrFong Posts: 326
    Yogi had 5 years with more HRs than strikeouts.
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  • orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The game is different. I'm sure Yogi Berra would have struck out a lot more if facing the pitchers of today with much better stuff, and all of the hard throwing late inning relievers that coaches use to match-up. It's all how the game is played now and how it was played back then. Just 2 completely different kinds of baseball.


    That said, 414 strikeouts in 8359 plate appearances is impressive no matter what era of baseball.
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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would disagree that pitching today is any bettler than it was when Berra was playing. Lot fewer pitchers and a lot fewer mediocre ones, too. Hitters just approach the art of hitting differently today than they did years ago, as home runs are what generate the large long term contracts.


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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>Yogi had 5 years with more HRs than strikeouts. >>


    To show just how good that is, Ted Williams (who many people consider to have one of the best hitting eyes in baseball) had only 4 such years.
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    Doug

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  • DrFongDrFong Posts: 326


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    << <i>Yogi had 5 years with more HRs than strikeouts. >>


    To show just how good that is, Ted Williams (who many people consider to have one of the best hitting eyes in baseball) had only 4 such years. >>



    Joe DiMaggio had 7 in just 13 years of baseball.

    But Orioles93 has already set us straight, so lets stop being stupid.
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  • dberk12dberk12 Posts: 399 ✭✭
    These stats are incredible. The Harper one is mind blowing. Yogi is underrated when discussing the all time greats considering he won 10 rings as a player and another 3 as a manager. He won 3 MVPs as a catcher which is crazy to think about. He probably should have won a 4th MVP in 1950 but Rizzuto edged him out. Here are the stats from 1950. Not sure how Rizzuto finished 1st and Berra 3rd.

    Rizzuto - .324 / 200 hits / 125 runs / 7 HR / 66 RBI
    Berra - .322 / 192 hits / 116 runs / 28 HR / 124 RBI


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  • dennis07dennis07 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭
    "Hitters just approach the art of hitting differently today than they did years ago, as home runs are what generate the large long term contracts."

    Excellent point. I like the use of the word "art" because it was truly an art in Yogi's day. Even most of those considered to be power hitters would cut down on their
    swing with 2 strikes in order to put the ball in play. There was a stigma attached to striking out.
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