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Originally Posted by dsvitak
Difference is that Babe was 22, and getting better, and Ohtani is in his 30's, already.
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Huh? The Babe played his 674th game in 1921 when he was 26y, 7m, 10d old. (Yes, you can actually see the date players played their ###th game.) And Shohei played his 674th game in 2023 only 12 days after he turned 29. So it's closer to a 2.5 year difference. Plus, Shohei played his first 5 years in Japan and it's not like he could have played in MLB if he wanted to. But he was so dominant in Japan (in 2016 at age 21/22 he won MVP) that I'd be surprised if he wouldn't have also been at least a decent MLB player in those years.
Whatever, I think it's rather silly to compare players from such different eras and it's especially silly to compare pitcher W/L records.