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Originally Posted by dudeosu
But why stop at just pitchers? Can't we have designated hitters for the other crappy hitters out there, like some catchers? How about designated fielders? Adam Dunn can't field worth a damn, I think it's bad for the game to have to see him take his chances and fail so much, he needs someone to field for him.
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If Adam Dunn had a .387 fielding percentage and successfully caught a ball once every six games you'd have a point. If catchers hit .140 you'd have a point.
If you look at OPS/(League OPS) of the other nine positions they look something like this: 110, 105, 102, 101, 100, 99, 97, 95, 92. Pitchers are at about 40. They're many orders of magnitude worse than anyone else who tries to hit.
Adam Dunn is probably 90% as good a fielder as an average player, maybe better than that. An average catcher is 93% as good as an other hitters. An average pitcher is 40% as good a hitter as the rest of the league.