Max Kellerman

But three home runs in a game are obviously better than hitting for the cycle.

Yeah.

Otani is not the best hitter in the game.

And people are a little bit lazy with this.

I remember watching Wade Boggs at a certain point, and he was hitting like 320 at that point in the season.

And the announcer said...

There's Boggs when he was with the Red Sox in his prime, hitting 320 right where you would expect.

And I thought to myself, or he was 330 even.

I thought to myself, wait, stop.

I know 330 sounds like a very high batting average to you, but that is not where you would expect Wade Boggs.

360 is where you would expect Wade Boggs.

There is a difference, right?

He's that.

much better at hitting for batting average, at least than everybody else.

Don't get lazy and say, so Otani is one of the best hitters in baseball.

Babe Ruth wasn't one of the best hitters in baseball.

The distance between Babe Ruth and the second best guy was a chasm.

Babe Ruth was so much better at the plate than everyone in baseball.

That is not Otani.

even though it was easier to do that then, the fact is that's what happened as a pitcher.