What does a Hall of Fame career look like?
Increasingly, the answer to that question has become muddled in the wake of controversial careers by players whose numbers are Cooperstown worthy, changes to the game and a data-based evolution of how we contextualize a sport that has been ingrained in our culture for 150 years.
The past couple of years in particular have been a time of great change in baseball. New rules. New schedules. New playoff format. These changes were a response to other changes that affected the style of baseball being played, the way players have been used and, most germane to the subject at hand, the numbers they put up.