Minimum Quality Standards in Baseball and the Paradoxical Disappearance of the.400 Hitter

Thomas Miceli ()

No 2005-15, Working papers from University of Connecticut, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper argues (following Gould, 2003) that the disappearance of the .400 hitter in major league baseball is due, not to a decrease in ability at the top end of the talent distribution, but to better methods of screening out players at the low end of the distribution. The argument is related to the economic literature on minimum quality standards in markets with imperfect information.

Keywords: Minimum quality standards; .400 hitters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-05
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