(28) Sustaining the Success of the Mets, and a New Look at Baseball’s Aging Curve

It’s a well-known truism by now that baseball players are getting younger, and the Baseball Rabbi certainly agrees… kind of. According to Pesach Wolicki, baseball’s aging curve is a little more complicated than the standard narrative would have you believe, and he and Scott Kahn try to identify the trends, and determine why there’s an apparent divergence between hitters and pitchers. All of this, of course, in the service of asserting that the New York Mets are built to last.