Well defense is important. An extreme example here, but in a game of mine the Indians had JD Martinez play 150 games in RF. He had 6 WAR on offense, and -5.5 on defense. They basically spent $23 million and gave up prospects to get a barely replacement level guy, all because they played him in the field.
Of course, that’s an extreme scenario because JD Martinez was rated 20/80 in RF, and they had a below-average CF too which didn’t help either.
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