Aging (with chart!) - Joe Posnanski

[O's are Legends]

Hey BTerp, someone else posted a Posnanski article for once.

It doesn?t really matter for this particular post if you like WAR or hate it ? all that matters here is that a 6.0 WAR season usually makes the player an MVP candidate. Last year?s hitting candidates in the American League were Jacoby Ellsbury (7.5), Jose Bautista (8.5), Curtis Granderson (5.2) and Miggy Cabrera (7.1). In the National League, they were Ryan Braun (7.7), Matt Kemp (10.0), Prince Fielder (5.2), Justin Upton (4.1) and Albert Pujols (5.4).

So, 6.0 seemed like a pretty good cutoff point.

Then I looked to see at WHAT AGE those players had their good seasons. That?s what gives us the chart above. I was not nimble enough to make the chart as readable as I would like, but I think you get the picture. As you can see, there are only a few players who had such a great season at age 20 or 21. And there were very few players who had such a great season at age 39 or 40. The bulk of them were in their mid-to-late 20s.

http://joeposnanski.si.com/2012/02/1...3_a2&eref=sihp

[BaltimoreTerp]

I was just coming in to post this