The career value of players being elected is actually going UP, and the number of players elected who played in each decade going down.
For every Ruth and Cobb, there are a lot of veteran committee picks that are just not worthy.
Think about it....in the last 30 years, how many truly undeserving players have been elected? Babies stands out like a sore thumb because there are so few others.
A few borderline guys for sure (Rice, Morris) but most would consider them at least borderline.
Here’s a list of HOFers by year
https://www.mlb.com/news/hall-of-fam...ctions-by-year