The one active player that seems like a stretch to me is Harper. Three or four more solid years, maybe, probably. But you still don't know what you'll get next year.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 February 2022 02:03 (two years ago) link
I haven't read the whole list yet. But I don't have a problem with recency bias. Baseball tends to exaggerate its history, and a newcomer gets the impression that the best games and players were around 50 or 100 years ago. I have no problem with people claiming that Mays or Aaron were the best ever -- but their primes were over 60 years ago. Compare that with the NBA or NFL, where there's more of a sense that today's players are the best there's ever been.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 4 February 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
What I'm saying is that baseball's anti-recency bias is one reason for its image problem compared with other major sports and helps explain why its fanbase skews older.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 4 February 2022 15:00 (two years ago) link