Twittter user says baseball is hardest sport to play because elite athletes “struggle” ?

I agree that baseball is the hardest sport to play. Anytime a professional athlete can fail 70% of the time and be considered to have had a great year, you know it's hard.

I remember Deion Sanders had an interview with someone and they were talking about all the sports he played growing up, in college and pro's, football, baseball and track and he said the hardest thing he ever did was try and hit a baseball.

No, I don't want the baseball player to call me gay for suggesting that.

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Put a baseball player on a bike, tell him to ride up a mountain in the Tour de France and see how much he struggles.

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While I will admit that the riders in the Tour de France are some absolute cardiovascular freaks, I believe a baseball player could ride up the mountain, it might take a while but I believe they could do it. A Tour de France rider wouldn't come close to getting a hit against an elite college or high school pitcher much less an MLB pro.

Take a bike rider, give him a bat, and tell him to hit 100mph with movement and see how mich he struggles

Why don’t we have the average MLB player face off against Magnus Carlsen in chess while we are at it?

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Nobody loves sucking their own dick as much as a baseball douche who constantly has to tell everyone how hard their sport is

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Really, it is just one aspect...albeit a core aspect....that is incredibly hard.

Most athletes, even those who aren't in great shape. can generally field groundballs, catch a fly ball, and run the bases. Not at a gold glove level, of course. But doable. Hitting on the other hand is incredibly difficult. But it doesn't require being incredibly athletic. It' requires exception mind-hand-eye coordination that very few people have.

The debate is really over athleticism vs. skill. I would say most NBA and NFL players could easily handle the "athleticism" requirements of baseball because they are not that rigorous. On the flip side, I would say well less than 25% of MLB players could handle the athleticism requirements of the NBA/NFL. However, very few (probably well less than 10%) of NBA/NFL players could have reasonable success hitting MLB pitching. They may be better "athletes" than most MLB players. But being a world-class athlete doesn't automatically translate into baseball success.

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I say it all the time.. you know baseball is the hardest sport when ELITE ATHLETES look like this trying to play the sport

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this is not a one way street. show me baseball players trying to play soccer. they look significantly worse than cj stroud looks throwing a baseball

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there is a reason all these QBs that were drafted, chose football, much more of a sure thing vs baseball.

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Or probably bc you are an immediate pro player

Well if you fail.at the plate 70% of the time and make the HoF, that should be an indicator that baseball is a losing battle most of the time.