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Q:From stats, age, and position standpoints, is Freddie Freeman on track to be a HOFer?Statistics provided by Batting Season & Career Finder | Stathead.com with wOBA and wRC+ from player pages on Fangraphs.Yes he is. Freeman has ten full seasons, and a few games in 2010, under his belt, and stacks up well statistically against the 13 modern-era first basemen currently in Hall of Fame.Freeman’s been a top-five MVP player four times and finished #23 once. He’s been an All-Star four times, winning a Gold Glove in 2018 and a Silver Slugger in 2019.Among first basemen with 5000 PA since 2011 as shown at Major League Leaderboards " 2020 " First Basemen " Dashboard Freeman ranks:First in plate appearances with 5822Carlos Santana is listed as having 6108 PA, but 1069 of those came as a DHThird in batting average with .294, behind Miguel Cabrera .314, Joey Votto .304, and in a virtual tie with Paul Goldschmidt’s .293Fourth with a .381 OBP, behind Votto’s .427, Cabrera’s .395, and Goldschmidt’s .393Fourth in slugging percentage with a .506, behind Carbrera’s .530, Goldschmidt’s .525, and Encarnacion’s .520Fourth in wOBA with a .377, behind Votto’s .398, Cabrera’s .392, and Goldschmidt’s .388Fourth in wRC+ behind Votto’s 150, Cabrera’s 149 and Goldschmidt’s 142.Fifth in Home Runs with 231, but only Goldschmidt among players who play first base regularly has more - 246Edwin Encarnacion has 320 however 180 of those came as a DHAlbert Pujols has 251, however 97 of those came as a DHMiguel Cabrera has 235, however 25 came as a DHWe know Cabrera and Pujols are going to the Hall of Fame. Votto should join them in Cooperstown, and with continued good health both Goldschmidt and Freeman will as will get there as well.

It isn’t a big leap to claim Piazza would have hit 500 homers had he simply not been a full time catcher. Three primary reasons:Catchers generally take a game off a week (usually day games after night games, or on getaway days) to save their bodies, costing most starting catchers a big percentage of games over their career. If they’re not in the AL and can DH this means you’re sitting instead of batting.Catchers get beat up and are thus more injury prone, and are more likely to get sent to the disabled list. Piazza missed huge portions of multiple seasons during his career to DL Trips.The overall wear and tear on the bodies means Catchers generally retire early and/or do not decline on the same expected rate as other players. Indeed, Piazza retired at 38 when lots of HoF guys play into their 40s.All of these factors can be claimed easily enough to explain why Piazza “only” hit 427 homers instead of reaching 500. All that beaing said, he’s still the leading career home run hitter by catchers of all time, and it isn’t really close.Mike Piazza Stats | Baseball-Reference.comMajor League Leaderboards " 2020 " Catchers " Dashboard

The original quote that has often been misinterpreted is:"We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources" (William James, 1908)It has nothing to do with saying that we are using only 10% of our brain. Here are a few arguments why this is actually very much unlikely:Removing (even small) parts of the brain can have substantial effects on behaviours. Ex: Phineas P. Gage, he survived a destruction of much of his brain's left frontal lobe => known consequences: Profound effects on his personality and behaviour.fMRI, EEG, MEG, PET scans: the whole brain show temporal fluctuation in terms of hemodynamic response, electrical activity, magnetic field and chemical activity (even during rest and sleep). Some regions increase their activity for a given task and period but it does not mean that other parts are turned off, it only means that they are less activated.The brain, 2% of the body weight, accounts for about 20% of the oxygen and calories consumed by the body (Clark and Sokoloff, 1999). From an evolutionary perspective, a brain that is 90% useless and that expensive in terms energy intake is unlikely to develop.Neuroplasticity: Training and learning induce structural and functional changes in the brain (Draganski et al, 2004). On the other hand: not enough input and the synapses are eliminated (Hubel and Wiesel, 1964). Therefore, it is very likely that the 90% useless would degenerate.The brain is made of cells (mostly neurons and glial cells): Some are useful for the structure of the brain, some for the immunity, some for cleaning up, some for chemical extracellular space regulation, some for "feeding" neurons, some for transmitting information, etc... Again, it is very unlikely that there is space for 90% of uselessness.Given these arguments, I would say that it is very, very likely that we used 100% of our brain.However, you can improve both your physical (strength, flexibility, accuracy, cardiovascular, etc...) and mental (attention, memory, motivation, self-esteem, etc...) skills. The brain plasticity is not a myth:Training and learning induce structural and functional changes in the brain (Draganski et al, 2004).Studies on conditioning, cognitivo-behavioral therapies, learning, sport psychology, etc... are proofs that your behaviors, mood, cognitive skills, etc... are partly controllable thus improvable.Therefore, I bet that you are using 100% of your brain though you might not exploit 100% of your abilities… :)Sources:http://www.cuyamaca.edu/people/jr-jones/intro-psych/10_Percent_Myth_Articles.pdfClarke, DD & Sokoloff, L 1999, 'Regulation of cerebral metabolic rate'.Draganski, B, Gaser, C, Busch, V, Schuierer, G, Bogdahn, U & May, A 2004, 'Neuroplasticity: changes in grey matter induced by training', Nature, vol. 427, no. 6972, pp. 311-312.Purves, D & Lichtman, JW 1980, 'Elimination of synapses in the developing nervous system', Science, vol. 210, no. 4466, pp. 153-157.Wiesel, TN & Hubel, DH 1965, 'Comparison of the effects of unilateral and bilateral eye closure on cortical unit responses in kittens', J neurophysiol, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 1029-1040.