Last night, I got into a zoom argument with my baseball-loving friend about which of the major sports have the best athletes. If I limit the “major” sports to football, basketball, baseball, soccer and hockey, I contend that the least athletic are baseball players. My argument is that baseball players are more skilled than athletic. Sure there are guys like Trout and Betts that are wonderful athletes but there are so many seemingly out of shape guys getting paid to play baseball that it’s hard for me to consider it a sport that puts a premium on athleticism. If you think of athleticism as running fast, jumping high and far, sustained endurance and coordination, I would say that basketball has the best athletes. If you include strength, football players enter the conversation.