Adam Dunn Used to Play Shortstop

(By Richard A. Lipski - TWP) As I type this, the Nats trail, 6-0. I don't appear to have brought much good luck to this place. I'll go back to staying away soon. Two pieces of conventional wisdom: every Major League Baseball player once played shortstop, and Adam Dunn's strength is hitting rather than fielding. So, combine those and what do you get? "Everybody in this damn room played shortstop, and everybody in this room pitched," Dunn said. So, was he good? "Probably not," he said. "I'm not very good defensively. Probably wasn't good then, either." (In fact, Dunn said, when he was four, he was the all-star catcher in his tee ball league. "I don't remember it, it's just what my dad always tells me," he said. "You know what an all-star catcher does in tee ball? Exactly. Nothing. When a guy swings and misses and knocks the