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Originally Posted by Amazin69
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.
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Bill James is no God. Just because he wrote something doesn't mean it's necessarily true. Whether 2B or 3B is a difficult position to play really depends on your skillset. In my mind, you really want a strong and accurate arm to play 3B with quick twitch reactions, while for 2B you need to be more athletic and faster in general to cover the increased ground. Now at 30 (soon to be 31 years old) does Bregman profile to be a great 2B? Maybe not, but if you check his minor league stats, he primarily played SS. And from what I've heard, everyone thought he'd probably play 2B in the majors, but with Altuve there they moved him to 3B. So that tells me that while he might not be a great 2B, he'll probably be fine there. If he didn't have the skillset to play 2B, he wouldn't have played SS in the minors.
Now would he be more valuable at 3B with how bad Devers is there? Maybe, I don't know. I don't like the Red Sox so the more strife over there the better.