How do you rate players?
What type of information do you think one would need to determine who the best players are?
To me the best players or the best player is the ones, or the one that has the best record against the best players of his time. Without this information one can only assume that a player is the best, or could of been the best. That's the way it's done in all other sports, tennis, boxing, golf, bowling, etc. With that understood, there's no mystery why I feel Reyes should be the undisputed choice for the best player of modern times. Lets go back 20 to 40 years ago when players like R. Allen, E. Kelly, Bugs, and E. Taylor reigned, it would be fair from a practical stand point to compare their greatness against Reyes but not a player like Artie. Maybe Artie was as good or better than the players mentioned, but since he didn't compete against them puts him at a lesser standard,:sorry We can go on and on about how the relatively untested players would of fared against the greatest of their time, but all we would be doing is spinning our wheels.:sorry Unfortunately for players like Artie an injustice may have been served but we can't go back and redo what has been done
Just my two cents.
Billy I.