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Old 07-16-2019, 09:09 AM   #12
Cheesehead1964
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Originally Posted by justpatrick View Post
I know I may sound like a broken record on this, but I really feel like the game does not value historical players´defense properly. George Sisler for example was universally recognized by contemporaries as one of the finest fielding firstbasemen in the game and yet he´s a 53, which I find quite unrealistic. And in what universe is Tris Speaker a 44 in CF? I realize it was towards the end of his career but that cannot possibly be accurate. There´s tons of more examples, these are just the tip of an Everest of an iceberg.
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Originally Posted by Sharkn20 View Post
The thing is that historical players were a lot less athletic that mostly nowadays players, therefore you can't rate them as high as contemporary players...

I've noticed this a lot too and not just the old school historical players.


Torii Hunter 52 DEF?
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