Babe Ruth in 1929, Barry Bonds in 2000, Alex Rodriguez in 2004…
It’s been two days since Shohei Ohtani (29, LA Dodgers) signed a 10-year, $700 million free agent contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. U.S. media outlets are still plastered with Ohtani stories in their baseball sections. He became the biggest contract of any athlete in the world, surpassing even the “God of Soccer” Lionel Messi (Inter Miami).
It didn’t end there. With the addition of Ohtani, the Los Angeles Dodgers could have a top 1-3 batting order for years to come with MVP-caliber stars. Ohtani, Mookie Betts, and Freddie Freeman. Many expect Ohtani to bat second between Betts and Freeman.
MLB.com called it “not only the best trio in baseball today, but potentially one of the best of all time. Three Hall of Famers. Three MVPs and a Silver Slugger.”
When you look at their adjusted OPS (OPS+), the all-time greats play one after the other. According to MLB.com, Ohtani led all major league hitters with at least 150 games last year with a 184. Betts was sixth at 163 and Freeman was eighth at 161.
“If they finish with at least 160 again in 2024, the Dodgers will become just the fourth team in history to have three players with at least 400 games (combined), joining the 1929 New York Yankees (Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Babe Ruth), 1963 San Francisco Giants (Orlando Cepeda, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey) and 2000 San Francisco (Barry Bonds, Ellis Burks, Jeff Kent),” MLB.com continued. 월카지노
For the 1929 Yankees, Ruth hit 46 home runs and 154 RBIs with an OPS of 1.127, Gehrig hit 35 home runs and 126 RBIs with an OPS of 1.015, and Lazerri hit 18 home runs and 106 RBIs with an OPS of 0.990. For San Francisco in 1963, Mays had 38 homers and 103 RBIs with a 0.962 OPS, Cepeda had 34 homers and 97 RBIs with a 0.929 OPS, and McCovey had 44 homers and 102 RBIs with a 0.916 OPS. For San Francisco in 2000, Bonds had 49 homers, 106 RBIs and a 1.128 OPS, and Kent had 33 homers, 125 RBIs and a 1.020 OPS.