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I’ve never done a chart on here before … and from the chart above, you can see why.
That chart, though, is supposed to represent something … this is a mathematically challenged attempt to approximate the aging pattern of every-day baseball players. The ages are there on the bottom. The bar graphs represent the number of players who had great seasons at those ages. I’ll get into the details in a minute.
I looked at this because it seems to me that lately (lately, meaning, the last 50 years) baseball people have been saying dubious things about players and their age. For instance, Detroit GM Dave Dombrowski — in his defense of the ultimately doomed Prince Fielder contract —...
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