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Originally Posted by Hammercraft
For the modern game, this may be the case. Teams have less interest in solid defenders and will give up some defense in favor off offensive production, leading to lower performance for groundball pitchers. Back in the day you could have a career hitting .230 as a defense-first C, 2B or SS, these days not so much
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To be fair, I think the modern game is getting back to understanding the importance of defense. We did go through a period *
cough* steroid era *
cough, cough* when nobody gave a rat's behind about defense, but I think teams are back to valuing defense much more highly than they did even 10 years ago.