When Gleyber Torres hit a home run off Bartolo Colon on Monday, it led to a bunch of fun facts and stats about their age difference. While it’s not the biggest age difference in a pitcher/batter matchup, you did have the oldest player in the majors allowing a home run to one of the youngest.
While seeing these fun facts pop up on the game’s broadcast and on Twitter, it sprung an idea. Using batter/pitcher matchups and/or teammate pairings, how many steps six degrees of separation-style would it take to go from Torres to the early days of baseball history?