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Originally Posted by Brad K
I've noticed many no hit players with very high defensive ratings. Especially guys highly rated simultaneously at 2B, 3B and SS. In contrast we have All Star shortstops with no rating at all at 2B and 3B.
Maybe the no hit guys were really that good in the field. They needed something to keep them close to the Majors. OTH, maybe both the no hit guys and the All Stars fielding ratings are wrong but one compensates for the other.
Problem with the All Stars is the game requires experience to rate someone at a position and the All Star has none at other positions because real life there was usually no reason to move him off his primary position.
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True and I'm not a huge fan of guys playing out of position in historical games, so I'm kind of glad that's the case. Logic tells me, Mark Belanger could have played every infield position, but he didn't, so I don't want him to. I'm just wondering why so many of the "not good enough for the bigs in rea life" guys are rated so high defensively on the historical minors side of the game?