Talk:Natural cycle

Comparison to pitching feats
I deleted a paragraph in the article saying that hitting for the cycle is roughly comparable in terms of skill to pitching a no-hitter, and a natural cycle is roughly comparable to pitching a perfect game, and backing this up with a comparison of frequency of occurrence. The reason I deleted this is that the two are not comparable: a batter's goal is generally to hit for as much as he can at each at-bat. Objectively speaking, 4 home-runs are better for a team than a single, a double, a triple and a home-run. "The cycle" is just an artificial construct--using it as a measure of skill (and accordingly counting "cycles" separately from any 4-hit game) and comparing it to no-hitters or perfect games, where the pitcher's goal was to retire each batter, is distortive.JudahH (talk) 03:36, 28 May 2010 (UTC)