i been listening to the orioles-yankees playoff series on the radio. i just heard the broadcasters going on about how cool it is that the orioles pitcher is a 28 year old rookie. "in other sports you never see that! you never see a 28 year old rookie center dominating basketball games." i think they were suggesting that late-blooming talent is a peculiar quirk of baseball. i'm not sure. couldn't it suggest poor talent evaluation in baseball? shouldn't the big league scouts have realized that guy was good when he was 19? 23?
i'm fairly convinced that basketball performance peaks around 25 years old, based on meaningful data. look up "wages of wins" if you're curious. i have the impression that tennis performance also peaks in the early 20s, but that's just my anecdotal notion. so i'm on board with the premise that athleticism peaks in the early 20s, but learn continues beyond that, so that depending on the sport you might have peak performance after peak athleticism. it could be that baseball is such a sport.
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