Three or four more peak-level seasons and he’s be in the HOF easy. He’s kind of like Mattingly in that he had those half dozen all-time seasons but declined rapidly. Done by as a star after 31.
What I remember vividly was that for those years though it seemed like Murphy and Schmidt were trading MVPs and were far and away the best players in the NL.
― omar little, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link