You're kidding right? You do know that injuries are a part of baseball no matter who you are, except for Ripken.. Pujols was on pace to be the best hitter ever and break the home run record, and then injuries took over. These things happen and no 4 years is definitely not enough time.

Pujols was not on pace for being the best hitter ever.
This is not only on extrapolation but on the production he has already had.

Based on WAR,
By age, Trout was the best ever through his 21 year old season, 22 year old season, and as long as he can manage 23 games worth of similar production over the next 73 games, will be THE best ever through his age 23 season. No player from our lifetime is in the top 5 for any of those.

Now forget about age, talking peaks or whatever.
Only 11 players in the history of baseball have had 3 consecutive seasons better than Trout at any point in their careers and only 5 more have had 3 seasons at any point in their careers which were better than Trout's first 3 full seasons.

This post was edited by ppkpkppk on Jul 18 2015 01:10pm

Leo Messi should be in this discussion as well. But I agree with Tek actually. I think Willie Mays is the greatest to ever play the game (hommers?) [5 tool player, amazing for 20 years] and Trout is Willie Mays reborn, except maybe even better.

Hommer.
But yea, whats really interesting is when you think of Trout and Harper vs. Mays and Mantle. (In that order Trout to Mays as Harper is to Mantle)

I love the Giants but I harry Barry Bonds.

my best post to date

Bonds/Ruth

If baseball got its head out of its ass 100 years ago and there was a DH, Ruth would have been unreachable. He could have pitched every 5th day and DH'd the other 4 days or whatever. Would be a hall of fame caliber pitcher on top of being the best hitter ever.


This post was edited by ppkpkppk on Jul 18 2015 01:25pm

Yeah people tend to forget very easily how much of a beast pitcher he was, and a guy who can the ball 500 ft over 700 times is truly the best player to ever play the game.

only choo can the ball 500 ft