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Originally Posted by Shadow Knows
What immediately stands out is the longevity. All-titwo greats should be playing much longer, and the career records relative to the season records suggest they're also cratering before the end. It's just not plausible that so many players could routinely hit 45-50 home runs in their primes, yet average less than 30 over short careers. It basically requires a Griffey-esque coda, which there isn't time for when playing only 14 or 15 years.
Same story for pitchers. There are only two who have the kind of career length you'd expect from the greats, and even they didn't manage to sniff 4,000 innings. Given the record 262-inning season and the strikeout leaderboard, it obviously isn't that they're limited to 160-190 innings a year, it's that they're not sustaining 210-240 for as long as they should.
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I agree. This is why you see people turning down the player aging modifiers for batters and pitchers. I'll probably end up doing that for my league too after seeing this.
As for Will Richards, I will post his player card when I get the chance but I'm at work all day
if I remember correctly he hit over .300 every season except his last two (and one of those seasons he hit .298.