Max Kellerman

Aaron Judge is measurably, objectively, much, much better than Otani.

Even when you throw in the pitching?

Yeah, including the pitching.

You add everything up.

Judge has more value because he's so much of a better offensive player.

Regular season.

But what Otani is doing is

harder because the more homogenized the league becomes, the harder it is to get a crazy deviation from the mean.

When Babe Ruth is playing against... It's not an international game yet.

Everyone has day jobs.

It's playing against the white guys.

Right.

There's not a lot of diversity or you don't necessarily have all the players there.

There's no diversity.

You will have...

Players who just suck worse than other players will suck in other eras.

And players who are incredible more than other eras will have incredible players.

So what Otani's doing in this day and age is just unbelievable.

But that's the level of difficulty of something and how great a player is are two different things.

For example, it is rarer to hit for the cycle than it is to hit three home runs in a game.