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Found December 29, 2008 on Where Is Andy Van Slyke:
Here's an interesting thought from Squaking Consider: this past spring, Dan Fox introduced a defensive metric on Baseball Prospectus that rated Luis Rivas as one of the worst defensive middle infielders in the last fifty years. Weeks later, Fox was hired by the Pirates. And yet Rivas ...
Original Story: http://www.whygavs.com/2008122947/pit...
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