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Originally Posted by nyjyrk
I said play at a high level, not take up space for 20 years.
Aslo, you can't compare players who play today with players of the 80's. The ball is juiced, the players are juiced, the ballparks are tiny, the pitching talent is thinned out, training methods are improved,etc. A shortstop hitting 20 HRs in 1984 is like one hitting 45 these days.
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If you wish, go back and look at the oh so many truly great shortstops in the decades before Cal. When the ballparks where even bigger, the ball was even less juiced, juice to a player was orange, and the training method was a hotdog and a beer.