I’m an old-fogey whose brain doesn’t understand new-fangled “advanced” stats..but Howard Megdal made this interesting point.
Is David Wright a good guy, not a superstar? Well, even including his 2011, mostly played with a stress fracture in his back and therefore not likely to indicate his current talent, Wright has the seventh-highest OPS of any 3B through his age-28 season. The other six include five Hall of famers- Eddie Mathews, Mike Schmidt, George Brett, Home Run Baker, Wade Boggs- and likely Hall of Famer Chipper Jones.