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Originally Posted by CBL-Commish
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.
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But at what point does a particular player's stats qualify him to have someone bat for him? Do you take career stats or season stats?
Being an incomplete player is that player's fault, not the fault of the game that requires a rule change. It's all so arbitrary.
As for the differences between pitchers and the rest, are those differences necessary? Does a pitcher
have to be a bad hitter?