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Originally Posted by kriscolic
But I would pose the following questions: What should the difference between the best and the worst DP turners be, and how did you arrive at that figure?
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That is a good question and as I said in an earlier post, I don't know the answer to it. I think it's reasonable to err on the side of caution and make the difference between an adequate double play-turner and an outstanding double play-turner not overwhelmingly large.
But the difference between an actual second baseman and someone who has no business playing the position? Shouldn't that be a big difference? Saying it shouldn't be is essentially saying either a) "all players have a nearly equal ability to turn a double play" or b) "since we can't adequately measure the difference, we should pretend there
is no difference". In which case, as I suggested in the original post, they should just eliminate the Turn DP rating altogether.