RESEARCH: Challenging Defensive Changes
Apr 7 2011
"The White Sox have no shining third-base candidates, and so in the time-honored tradition they are attempting to move an outfielder in there. This move hardly ever works ... Ken Williams, who has never played a professional game at any position other than the outfield, is being worked out at third ... The major leagues are not a training ground, and anyway why would you put one of your fastest players at a defensive position that doesn't require speed? I look for Steve Lyons or possibly Donnie Hill to be back at third base by the middle of May." -- The Bill James Baseball Abstract 1988
That quotation exemplifies a more general concept that baseball author Bill James advocates. The baseball positions (other than pitcher) may be...
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