Roids explain a lot.we don’t know who is using,braun? Clean players could have protected their reps by speaking up about cheaters and demanding testing. They didn’t now they suffer the consequences.

1) Sabermetrics does not addresss age. Sabermetrics is a methodology for reading and understanding stats and valuing them appropriatly. Whether a player is 25, 35 or 70 is not relevant to using sabermetric analysis on their value as a player.

2) A player’s prime is considered to be between the ages of 26-31. This is an average, however, not a hard and fast rule. A LOT of players are great at younger or older ages even if they had mediocre ‘prime’ years. Thats why its an ‘average’, that means it describes where *most* but not all players had thier best seasons. Lots and lots of players had their best seasons before their prime(Griffey, Dale Murphy, etc), and lots and lots of players had their best seasons *after* their prime(Edgar Martinez, Jamie Moyer), and lots of them got a late start but produced well during their Prime and after(Nelson Cruz, Jose Bautista). Its not a hard rule and there are as many players who fall outside of it as inside of it because its just an average.

3) If Albert’s in decline its one hell of a decline phase. Aside from two months and a broken thumb last year he raked with the best of them and damn near carried his team into the playoffs. He’s remarkably consistent and has been since he entered the league ten years ago. If you think this is a decline, geez, I’d hate to see what you think his prime years should have looked like.

4) Now as for the age thing, all I can say is how the hell did his parents fake his age and somehow know he was going to be a MLB superstar when he was just a kid and not a baseball prospect in the slightest? Are they psychic? I mean really, he wasn’t even drafted his first time through! What did such fakery ever gain him? And given that, if he really were ’35′ or whatever, then the last few seasons have been some of the greatest seasons ever by someone of that age. I mean holy hell is he one heck of a ballplayer to hit like he does with good defense in his mid-30′s. Only the true legends of the game ever pulled that off.

Look, I understand that you’ve tossed rationality aside in order to be dedicated to hating a man you’ve never met and never will, but seriously could you lay off the slander? Just think of how you’d feel if someone spread things like this about you in your life and career. Do unto others and all that…

And learn Sabermetrics. It says no such thing. Hell, ‘it’ dosen’t even speak to this type of discussion as ‘it’ is simply a methodology.

And btw, steroids existed and were used by professional athletes in the 60′s, and its well documented.

2) Would you appreciate someone accusing you of fraud at your job with no actual proof? What if their only evidence was that you were ‘too good at your job for your age’?

I think there is something helping this guy, always have and always will. Seeing this makes me more comfortable with this belief.

The recent past history of sports in general perhaps has tainted me, time will tell.

Everyone would rather have Longoria and his contract than A-Rod and his, but it’s not really a possibility.

Guess what, they all worth 160/10, every single one of them.