What if Babe Ruth had been bad? Part 1

Back in 2020, we used Out of the Park Baseball to experiment with something: what if the Yankees had a perfect baseball player?

Using the player editor feature on the game, I edited Eduardo Núñez’s ratings on the game to make him a perfect hitter, fielder, and even pitcher. It resulted in Núñez playing into his 50s, leading the Yankees to 11 World Series titles, while winning 14 MVPs and 12 Cy Youngs.

However, what would happen if we took the closest thing the Yankees have had to a perfect player, and made him into a barely playable mess?

Babe Ruth was so good over the course of his MLB career that he has an almost mythical status. Not only did he massively rewrite the record book over his…