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True Dough

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4. Different players, different eras

Reply to Celerity (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 29, 2023, 09:56 PM

Nov 2023

but when looking at those RBI totals, I think it's relevant to consider the number of games played. Albert Pujols only finished 79 RBI behind Aaron but he played 218 fewer games.

And the spread was even wider with Babe Ruth. He played only 2,503 games compared to Aaron's 3,298. And yet Ruth was only 83 RBI behind Homerin' Hank.

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