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In response to
"From my Little League days it always seemed like the best pitchers were also the best hitters. I always wondered where the schism occurred. -- nm"
by
Dano
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When they stopped being the best athletes in the pool.
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There’s a reason you’ll see high schools have guys who star in football / basketball / baseball. It’s a small pond.
They go to college, it’s a big pond where few are among the best talents at more than 1 sport.
And a fair bit of that best talent is overlapped skills like Todd Helton who was a QB for UT so a baseball pitcher…similar skill set. And he topped out as a viable pitcher in SEC baseball.
The talent necessary to be that good is incredibly thin when the pool is legitimately every male between 18 and 43 worldwide.
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