In Baseball, like in most things with quantifiable results there are people who are GOOD and people who are GREAT at what they do. In baseball there are plenty of solid players but a team that wants to win a championship needs “Elite Players”. It’s pretty straight forward, but let’s give our base example. David [...]
The 1964 Mets went 53-109. Casey Stengel managed the team. That team had a little bit of talent: Ron Hunt was the starting second baseman, Ed Kranepool was the starting first baseman, and Jim Hickman was the center fielder. Charley Smith hit 20 HRs as a third baseman. Joe Christopher hit for a .300 BA [...]