Meanwhile, despite remaining in the Yankees’ organization, Gehrig has not played in several seasons, likely sensing something off with the universe. While they led the AL for part of the season, a second half swoon sees them end the year 15 games back. The ‘31 season sees the fake Yankees fall back to the pack, unable to build upon their pennant. The team is still swept in the World Series, allowing 37 runs in four games. A young Bill Dickey led the way with a breakthrough season, hitting. Here we have one of the few improvements from real life, as the simulation Yankees squeak out the AL pennant by one game over the Senators. While he hasn’t officially retired, there is still no team yet to take a look at Ruth. Meanwhile, the team now seems to be going the wrong way, finishing 20 games back in the AL. Some wonder if he actually got Ruth’s legs in some sort of transplant. The Yankees have acquired a player named Samuel Byrd, who has gotten the nickname “Babe Ruth’s Legs.” It’s unclear to fans why this man has gotten a nickname referencing a mediocre player from years ago. They finish in third, 10 games back of the pennant-winning Cleveland team. The Yankees are a perfectly fine team in 1928, but they’re only that: perfectly fine. While some of the earlier Yankees’ teams were very good despite the lack of a great Ruth, now his absence is really starting to show. To be fair, the simulation Gehrig ended up missing a lot of the season, and it resulted in a massive drop off from what actually happened in 1927. However, as great as the team was, how much would they be harmed by their best real life player not being around in this simulation? While Ruth was a massive part of that, you don’t get that nickname because of just one guy. Obviously, this was the “Murderers’ Row” team that won 110 games. The 1927 season was by far the one I was most intrigued by going into this exercise. Meanwhile, no team has picked up the diminished Ruth, and it appears as if his baseball career may be over. Great seasons from the simulation versions of Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, and Bob Meusel made up for the lack of the real life Ruth, getting the Yankees to the same win total as they actually put up. While the simulation team won the same amount of games as the real one, they actually finished a couple games back of the White Sox.
In real life, the ‘26 season marked the Yankees’ first trip back to the World Series since their first championship win in ‘23.
While Ruth isn’t even on the team anymore, we’re going to see how a still talented Yankees’ team would’ve done compared to their Ruth-led real life counterparts. In part two, we’re going to see how the next couple seasons would’ve gone. In the OOTP simulation, the Yankees still had some success, but haven’t won a World Series through 1925, and had to release a truly terrible Ruth during the ‘25 season. In real life, the Yankees made their first World Series in 1921, and then won their first title two years later, with Ruth leading the way. We tanked all of his skill ratings within the game and started in 1920, his first year with the Yankees. However, using Out of the Park Baseball 22, we decided to see what would happen if instead of the mythical figure he was, Ruth was a bad player. In reality, we know that he redefined the sport and arguably altered the destiny of the entire Yankees’ franchise thanks to his legendary career. Earlier today, we began a series to see what happened if Babe Ruth had actually been bad when he joined the Yankees in 1920.
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