Do Big-Boned Position Players Age Worse Than Everyone Else?
No.
Jeff, one of the authors of the fantasy baseball guide,The Process, writes for RotoGraphs, The Hardball Times, Rotowire, Baseball America, and BaseballHQ. He has been nominated for two SABR Analytics Research Award for Contemporary Analysis and won it in 2013 in tandem with Bill Petti. He has won four FSWA Awards including on for his Mining the News series. He's won Tout Wars three times, LABR twice, and got his first NFBC Main Event win in 2021. Follow him on Twitter @jeffwzimmerman.
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Where is Bartolo Colon to comment when we need him??
Awesome!
Great work as always!
Thanks.
SeEmS lIkE aNoThEr PeRsOn WhO cOmMeNtEd WiThOuT rEaDiNg!1!
And yet I still search for the reason that Joey Meyer failed to make an impact…
Haha, awesome. Great to have one thing to rule out as a consideration.
Is this true? or is the answer “We don’t know”?
Has the statute of limitations passed on stealing old Deadspin jokes? I’ve been waiting to start my Bear Fridays twitter feed
#veryshortdebates
Did large boned first basemen descend from the robust Australopithecines whereas the smaller, thinner middle infielders are the scions of the gracile species like afarensis?
That is one way to keep the typos count down!
Haha
First rule of new Fangraphs is no rules!!!!!
>Regular fat people age worse than regular healthy people
>Fat players dont age worse than regular healthy players
right
You should test your hypothesis and let us know how it goes.
It’s kind of hard when weights listed for players, especially “big-boned” players, bear little relation to reality. If you had accurate weights, you could design a good study.
Is anyone else seeing the article text show up in Spanish instead of English?
Thank-you Jeff, for such a succinct article! 😉
So I guess Jeff gets paid by the article, not by the word.
Is it too much to ask you to go through the exercise of proving that to us?
So it would make you feel better to have a bunch of aging curve graphs that have one line on top of each other?
“From all these parallel lines, you can see it indisputably! Pablo Sandoval was younger than Dexter Fowler at the start of last season, and as hard as it is to believe, he’s still younger than Dexter Fowler now!”
I think you missed April Fool’s Day by nearly a week.
I had to read the article 3 times to make sure I understood it.
That’s funny
This is exactly why I just got a membership. Take me away from the logic spinning world and into a world of baseball logic and nonsense. More must read articles Jeff!
hahahaa
Still, there are those players whose FEMUR always seems to outperform their xFEMUR no matter what.