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Originally Posted by JustinD
The WBC has shown that numerous other leagues are more competitive currently than the Negro Leagues ever were. Yes some of these players are in the league, but I would be happy to place Non-MLB Dominican, Korean, and Japanese All-stars against the MLB any day.
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I agree with you that the MLB recognizing Negro League stats will have little to no effect on pricing, especially since Baseball Reference and SABR already integrated the stats years ago.
But to say the "WBC has shown that numerous other leagues are more competitive currently than the Negro Leagues ever were" is an odd point and impossible to prove. Are you saying that the cream of the crop from the Dominican, Korean and Japanese Leagues were better than the average Negro League? That may be the case, but it is not really relevant. What MLB is saying that on the whole, the 7 Major Negro Leagues were basically as good as white MLB as demonstrated by a fairly large sample size over many years. I don't think you can take the tiny sample size of the WBC and extrapolate a ton of information.
Furthermore, you are missing the point of the integration of the data. The best players from around the world are able to join the MLB in the USA. Blacks didn't have that opportunity until 1947.