re young catchers in article apr cs cornell edu tedward cs cornell edu edward theodorus redsox fannus fischer writes sorry this doesn t fly the good players have always been ready for the majors early how many hofers were not contributing major leaguers by the time they were that brings up an interesting point anyone else catch espn s piece about prospects and the relationship between age career length mvps and hall of fame members it was part of their preseason special basically they looked at players that had amassed plate appearances or abs by the time they were and noticed some interesting things for starters they found out such players comprised the majority of mvps in the history of the game they also found out such players represented the majority of the players in the hall of fame the kicker though was that they actually did some number crunching and found that such players careers lasted much longer than the careers of players not in that group they also found that these players produced at both a greater level of performance and produced over twice the raw totals hrs etc of the other players the first group outhit the second something like to in raw ba and blew away the second group in such categories as hrs bs rbis etc it was the most impressive thing i ve seen on espn in recent memory i guess ray knight makes his rebuttal tonight dave hung like a jim acker slider kirsch blue jays do it again in kirsch staff tc umn edu new quotes out of context not to beat a dead horse but it s been a couple o weeks this disappoints me punishments discharges jackhammering stephen lawrence
