bigboy1234 wrote:If you adjust for this
I don't really get what you mean by that, because I used the translated EQA's which showed Heilmann as a lot better hitter. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what your saying or your adjusting in some other way, not sure.And it kinda does matter what Cobb said, he's one of the greatest of all time, so his eye for talent, I'm guessing, is pretty sharp. Plus, he actually saw both play, lots of times, neither of us have seen Crawford or Heilmann play.
Eh, just because you see someone play doesn't mean that much. I'm sure there are tons of great players who misjudge players all the time. Not saying thats the case here but it could defintely be. Really there adjusted EQA's say more about there hitting than Cobb could really tell me.
I'm not very hip to stats like EQA but Bill James adjusted Sam Crawford's stats to make his first season 1919 instead of 1899 and did so each year subsequently throughout his career (ie 1901 = 1921). This way, it shows us approximately what his stats would have been if he hadn't played in the dead ball era.
And Cobb knew what he was talking, he loved talking baseball, he almost (or maybe actually did?) got into a fistfight with Ted Williams over a discussion about Rogers Hornsby. I'll take his word.
