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Originally Posted by tschock
And, that Negro League statistics, pre-integration, were watered up due to the fact that they were note facing the best talent of their generation?
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Oops, that's what meant. ML statistics were "watered up". I meant to convey they were inflated.
Negro Leaguers were facing major league quality and minor league quality talent. Same with Major Leaguers.
These players were not excluded from the ML because they lacked talent, it's because they were black. And as Triwak put it, just because someone says they weren't good enough to be in the Majors, doesn't make it true. There is no metric out there right now that can tell us the 11th best player on a NL team was equal to the 15th best player on a ML team. A lot of people out there have opinions, but the only way to prove it is to let them play... oops, too late for that.