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Originally Posted by Topnotchsy
I feel like the standards for the HOF (300 wins, low ERA) have not done a great job of being adjusted for era.
Obviously some eras had better pitchers than others, but there are a couple of eras that seem incredibly underrepresented.
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I feel like the 50s and 60s had the best players and into the 70s, but the talent has been on the decline. My reasoning is that at this time baseball was the National pastime and #1 sport in our country. In the 70s, the NFL took over from MLB and a lot of talent was siphoned off. Then in the 80s with Magic, Bird and Jordan the NBA rose up to challenge MLB for #2, siphoning off more talent. Some of that has been off set by foreign players, but not enough. We are seeing a bump in talent in recent years, but I don't think we will ever see the talent level of the post war baby boomer era when baseball was king.