It's why all these "none of these guys could play in the league today" arguments are stupid. The only way to judge athletes is by how they met the challenges of their own time, facing the competition they actually faced. https://twitter.com/jay_jaffe/status/1137076449821810690 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
The talent pool is much deeper these days, although teams attenuate that with 13 man pitching staffs instead of 8 or 9. I've always believed the best player of before would still be good, but the variance would shrink, leaving them closer to the middle.
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Replying to @blcartwright @baseballcrank
It is not self-evident that the talent pool in baseball is deeper. How do you reach that conclusion?
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When Jackie Robinson signed w/Dodgers US pop was ~140 million & MLB only scouted white players. Now it's 330m, every race is looked at, plus Latin America & Asia are heavily scouted. The ratio of available amateurs to MLB roster spots (which has also grown, 300 to 750) is bigger
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We can also use player to player variance in MLB (spread from best to worst batters, best to worst pitchers) to estimate how diluted MLB talent is across the years. The higher the pct of opposing batters and opposing pitchers who are high quality, the fewer outlier individuals
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The one way the talent pool contracted - and this happened decades ago - was when other pro sports started eating in earnest into baseball's hammerlock on athletes with the gifts & drive to play pro sports.
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