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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Sabermetric Neophytes: Meet Jeff Kent
But I say Kent cannot be looked at as a second baseman, especially in this day and age where middle infielders all over baseball are putting up numbers usually posted by outfielders and third baseman. We have to start judging players - other than catchers - as all part of the same pool.
Yes! Well, he goes way too much to the other side, but “yes” to the idea that you don’t separate secondbasemen from thirdbasemen. As readers of this blog knows, the fielding talents of 2B and 3B, over (at least) the last decade, are fairly equivalent, much the same way that you would simply look at corner outfielders as one pool of players, and not think to separate them as LF and RF.
So, big kudos to Bill Price for swimming in my sabermetric pool.
Now, what about Jeff Kent? How bad (or good?) was his glove? Well:
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