Is Shohei Ohtani the Greatest Baseball Player Ever? The Debate That’s Shaking the Sport to Its Core
But while Ohtani is doing some things never seen before at such a high level, is the nearly 32-year-old already the best player who’s ever played the game?
If not the mythical greatest player in baseball history, perhaps the most talented or the most versatile?
For answers to the Shohei Ohtani GOAT debate, we turned to some data experts inside Stats Perform – Jesse Abrahams and James Costanz of the U.S. Data Insights research team and data scientist Lucas Haupt of the AI team.
So we asked them:
Where Does Shohei Ohtani Rank All Time?
Jesse Abrahams
Two names come to mind for me when naming MLB’s greatest player ever: Babe Ruth and Shohei Ohtani. A surface-level look at traditional stats supports this as they are the only two players to debut since earned runs were first tracked in 1913 to meet the following criteria (through June 23):
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