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Originally Posted by knockahoma
Just out of curiousity, could you list the defensive tools of 5 or 6 most athletic catchers? In real life you don't see a lot of catchers move to 2B and SS, but I'm curious whether that might be the case in OOTP. Do you suspect a few of those catchers could easily be moved to 1b, 3b, 2b, of, or even shortstop?
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Craig Biggio was converted to 2B from C. I can think of several who went to 3B and even more who ended up at 1B, particularly when they were older and couldn't catch every day.
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Yeah, I can think of several catchers who wound up at the corner infield and outfield spots. BJ Surhoff played some SS in college and then went on to be a catcher.
I can't think off-hand of anyone else who went from catcher to a middle- infield position outside of Biggio. But, surely, Biggio had a predecessor?
But, for OOTP purposes, when the game stacks 10 catchers at the low minors level, it might help the pain to think of them as distributable to the other positions. There is that distribution situation in the minors. If anything, there should probably be 10 shortstops instead of 10 catchers. It's been said that the "best" players tend to play shortstop at the little league, high school and possibly even college levels. I know on my college team we had several players who were shortstops in summer ball and high school, distributed out to other positions at the next level.
I read a few years back that very few 2B are drafted highly. The people we think of as 2B are usually converted shortstops from high school and college.
Here's an interesting article and conversation from Tango on the defensive spectrum.
http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/inde...ense_spectrum/
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The interesting thing with this chart is that it can serve the basis for aging modeling. As an infielder gets older, we see that a few more players each year lose the necessary skills to remain in the IF, and become OF or 1B. As they move into easier competition fielding-wise, they are now compared against a tougher competition hitting-wise.
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