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Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

His contemporaries were "terrible" because you are comparing them to other players from other eras, who weren't playing in the same era against the same pitchers, etc... It becomes circular logic. All you can do is recognize that his contemporaries were the best in the world at the time. So it's not racing babies. It's the best on earth, and he was near the top of the best.

+1

How one could come to the conclusion that the players in MLB in 1973 were "terrible" is absurd.

And for all of Tabe's talk about Grich's hitting not being impressive to him, he's still missing the point that Grich had the greatest fielding year of his career in 1973 (which says a lot), and that is a very large part of why his WAR was so high.