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<blockquote data-quote="champaignchris" data-source="post: 1697424" data-attributes="member: 26283"><p>I don’t think the age curve has changed. For the vast majority of baseball’s history (ignoring the steroid era), players have generally peaked between ages 24-28. </p><p></p><p>I think what’s changed has been management’s understanding of the aging curve with regard to handing out big free agent contracts. This really wasn’t a factor in roster configuration until the 70s and then got thrown all out of whack from about 93 to 2009 with steroids and guys in their mid 30s still playing like they were kids.</p><p></p><p>It’s different for every player and there are most certainly guys who are better in their 30s than in their 20s - Willie Mays, Honus Wagner, Joe Morgan, Roberto Clemente, just to name a few. </p><p></p><p>In fact, I think the player who peaks in his 30s is more common than management probably wants to admit and that baseball has probably overcorrected to some degree. I think you can look at last year’s Giants as a team that acquired a bunch of 30-somethings for less than what they were worth and rode them to a bunch of wins, and that maybe that might be a sign of things swinging back the other way to where veterans will be more accurately valued.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="champaignchris, post: 1697424, member: 26283"] I don’t think the age curve has changed. For the vast majority of baseball’s history (ignoring the steroid era), players have generally peaked between ages 24-28. I think what’s changed has been management’s understanding of the aging curve with regard to handing out big free agent contracts. This really wasn’t a factor in roster configuration until the 70s and then got thrown all out of whack from about 93 to 2009 with steroids and guys in their mid 30s still playing like they were kids. It’s different for every player and there are most certainly guys who are better in their 30s than in their 20s - Willie Mays, Honus Wagner, Joe Morgan, Roberto Clemente, just to name a few. In fact, I think the player who peaks in his 30s is more common than management probably wants to admit and that baseball has probably overcorrected to some degree. I think you can look at last year’s Giants as a team that acquired a bunch of 30-somethings for less than what they were worth and rode them to a bunch of wins, and that maybe that might be a sign of things swinging back the other way to where veterans will be more accurately valued. [/QUOTE]
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