Slightly Better than Replacement Level
In the earlier days of baseball two-way play was fairly common. The mound being closer, batters being able to call out the pitches they wanted, and more made it an era where players could pitch and be a position player more frequently. These circumstances are what gave us a player like Bob Caruthers. Good old […]
Long before his 1922 season as the American League Most Valuable Player playing first base for the St. Louis Browns George Sisler spent time as a two-way player. Well, he spent one season as a dedicated two-way player and followed that year up with sporadic pitching appearances until 1928. But, for one year the Browns […]