PLAYERS:
Mark Reynolds,
Wilson Betemit,
Chris Johnson,
Ty Wigginton,
Ryan Doumit,
Carlos Quentin,
Mike Morse
TEAMS: Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Arizona Diamondbacks, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals
TEAMS: Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Arizona Diamondbacks, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals
Last night on Twitter, Dave Cameron responded to a statement made by Michael Morse that he was vehemently against being used in the designated hitter role: "My suggestion to all these guys that don't want to DH - Don't suck at fielding, then." That quote leads to today's post which is: Six fielders who should be DHs. Why six? Who knows. All posts in the last week have started with six. Just humor me. The problem identifying the top six worst defensive players is that Fangraphs and Baseball-reference.com do not always agree on defensive statistics. So the criteria becomes, then, who do both sites agree on as woeful fielders? Three years of data was used in the criteria and then players who are playing out of position are taken out. For example, nobody has lost more runs to average for his fielding than Shawn Kemp. Well, that is because he should not be playing center field. Should we punish Kemp for playing out of position? Perhaps so. But it did not seem fai...
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