If you are like me, sometimes you find yourself looking at random players’ Fangraphs pages. Sometimes you might find yourself thinking “this guy was better than I remember”, or “Oh yeah, I forgot he was really good” or some other third thing. An interesting question from Twitter — along with its answers — prompted me to think about these players more deeply today:
There seemed to be some variance in how people chose to answer this question, which of course raises the question: what makes a player forgettably good?
This seems to ring true for players that had about somewhat lengthy careers with consistently above average play.