Contrary to what the surface-level statistics might lead you to believe, Michael Jordan was not completely overmatched on the baseball diamond.
As a 31-year-old playing organized baseball for the first time since high school, he was aggressively sent to Double-A Birmingham, and throughout his lone minor league season, he showed legitimate signs of progress, as detailed in episode seven of ESPN's Last Dance documentary.
We'll never know if he would have succeeded in the majors, but there's plenty of reason to think he would have at least gotten the chance.
Ahead we've highlighted five such reasons, covering everything from the Chicago White Sox roster to the business side of things to his improving game.