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Old 05-01-2018, 11:06 PM   #5
Syd Thrift
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Yeah, the last left handed third baseman played in the majors in the early 1900s if memory serves, and the last regular played in the early 1890s. IRL a third of all pitchers are LHPs even though there are only around 5-10% of us in the population, so basically if a player throws well enough to play third base, he was made into a pitcher before he completed high school.
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