Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable (3rd nomination)
Records are only highly unlikely to be broken given current conditions; however, conditions have changed throughout Major League Baseball history, and so virtually all records could be broken. As I recall, both Bill James and Baseball Prospectus have written about how records like 300 wins may become approachable again in the future. I don't believe there is a sufficiently well-founded central thesis for the concept of records that are considered unbreakable; each record requires its own explanation of the state of the game in the context of the achievement, why the record is difficult to break today, and what conditions would have to return (or be introduced) in order for the record to no longer be considered unbreakable. As such, I think the list is in danger of being a list of |non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations. I suggest that the articles for each achievement in question be expanded if necessary to include reliably-sourced discussion of how the changing conditions of MLB over the years have affected the ability to set new highs/lows for the achievement. For example, the difficulty in breaking the career MLB record for wins is best described in the article on Win_(baseball)|wins, which already has discussion of the changing demands on starting pitchers
— User:Isaacl, 02:12, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
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