Pete Rose has never had his tongue in his pocket. The legendary Expos, Phillies and Reds player likes to talk about baseball.
These days, he’s glad he doesn’t see the Reds still getting destroyed every game. He likes to see his heart club being successful.
I would bet a little two piasses that he is proud of his Reds. Sorry for the bad joke.
Brief. All that to say, the all-time leading hits leader in MLB likes to see his Reds, but he also likes to see what Luis Arraez is doing in Miami.
Rose says he’s tired of guys hitting homers all the time and that hitting is a lost art. Arraez (who hits nearly .400) is the closest thing Rose has.
The former Reds doesn’t think Arraez can keep up the pace due to the number of times he comes up to bat, but he still sees him finishing around .350. This is already a feat in itself.
What made me laugh the most about his interview with Bob Nightengale was when Rose said that playing today he believes he would be a .200 hitter.
He doesn’t say that because he considers the pitchers of 2023 to be good… but because he is 81 years old.
It reminds me of Michael Jordan, that sentence.
For what? Because he said a few years ago that his 1990s Bulls could win a few games against today’s clubs.
According to him, the Bulls would have won by a few points, but nothing more. Remember that we have been retired for several years, he added.
It always makes me laugh, answers like that.
