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Posted By: identify7

Scott: what I should have said (but didn't) was that in analyzing a player like Bergen both the players actual performance and the minimum acceptable levels of performance (identified as the other Mendoza line players - who hit > .030 points higher) are established, and measureable.

Since both are identifyable, if the stats do not indicate that he performs at major league levels, while accumulating > 3000 at bats, then he is overrated by a measurable amount.

No other player is overrated by a measureable amount.

Based on the reading which I have done on Bergen, he was good, but not a top tier catcher. But then again, his team did not have much of anything. He certainly could not catch lightening bolts.

The measureable amount that I contend that Bergen is overrated at is the 0.030 or so, batting average points difference between him and other good field/light hit players.