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Old 02-18-2025, 10:33 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by GeoWar View Post
Think !!!!!
Alex Gordon with Kansas City -- an All-Star at 3B ..... made the move to Leftfield became an All-Star and Gold Glove winner ....
Left field is the OPPOSITE direction of shifts. It's an easier position to play.

The "Defensive spectrum" defined by Bill James goes like this, from hardest to easiest:

C > SS > 2B > CF > 3B > RF > LF > 1B > DH.

You want to move to right as you age, not to the left.

Also, saying "Alex Gordon" to a METS fan is just being unnecessarily mean. I was at that game, as I've mentioned. 14 innings in the rain.

(Still no idea how that ball went out, to center field, no less. Balls that sounded much harder off of the bat didn't even make it to the track.)
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