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Originally Posted by TomVeal
The key point is that a fairly large proportion of cricket players can both bat and bowl competently, while almost all baseball pitchers are weak batters and hardly any position players can pitch even as well as the average pitcher hits. The reason why all-rounders are possible is that bowling is much less difficult than pitching.
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There's a great line about this in this year's Baseball Prospectus, pointing out that Adam Loewen is a better hitter than any pitcher in the majors, and a better pitcher than any hitter ... but since he's basically AAAA at both, there's no place for him.
Given a slightly different set of rules, he'd be a superstar.