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There's a statistic in this that blows my mind.

Posted by David (aka David) Aug 4 '23, 11:08

MLB even maintains a page for this: https://www.mlbplayers.com/10-years-service-time-2023

Only 1,500 MLB players have reached the ten-year milestone. (twitter.com)

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Is there a positional breakdown, or even just hitters v. pitchers for that 1500? -- nm - rollo Aug 4, 12:20 2
- I've looked without success. If anyone finds something, please post it. -- nm - David Aug 4, 12:32
- LOOGYs are like 500 of them, I'm sure. -- nm - spamlet Aug 4, 12:23
If you took every person to ever play in the majors since 1876, they'd fill about half of most stadiums. - spamlet Aug 4, 11:16 6
- unit of measurement: MHGA - hollywood big shot Aug 4, 11:22
- It blows my mind because more than 1,000 people will play in MLB this year. - David Aug 4, 11:20 4
  - Half of the top 30 picks last month won't make the majors. That's incredible to me. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 4, 11:23 3
    - I talk about this every year with draft fetishists. MLB's got the most pointless one. And it used to go 60+ rounds. -- nm - David Aug 4, 11:24 1
      - I think the most amazing thing was that until Griffey Jr, a #1 overall had never made the HoF. Now it’s 3* with at least 1 more likely in Bryce -- (edited) - Will Hunting Aug 4, 11:56
    - "It's a tough racket" -- nm - Alec Baldwin Aug 4, 11:24
It's the MLBPA pension # if I recall from Moneyball -- there's a few pages where they have to cut a reliever with like 9.98 years in - knowing he likely -- (edited) - Will Hunting Aug 4, 11:11

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