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Old 02-10-2022, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by BobC View Post
The nice thing about this Trout debate is that we will actually get an answer as his career unfolds. He's already set the base, but can he get completely healthy and return to many more stellar years, or do nagging injuries and ever increasing age start to take their toll on him now. Time will tell.

Personally, I don't think you put someone on an all-time list until they're actually done putting all their time on the playing field in. Just like you don't put someone in the HOF till their career is actually over. It is already truly impossible to accurately compare and rate players from different times and eras against each other. But to then include comparisons of players for whom we don't yet have a complete picture of how their entire careers will actually turn out, that is just absurd.
So to repeat my example, it would have been absurd to put Brady on a list of all time greats a month ago?
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