Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Lefty O’Doul never got a true chance to be a two way player in the major leagues. Or, maybe he did depending on what my research shows about the 1920s Pacific Coast League qualifying as a major league. As of today he never did, instead, he played both ways exclusively in the currently classified as […]
Jack Graney spent fourteen seasons in Major League Baseball, first with the Cleveland Naps and then with the Cleveland American League club. I don’t particularly care about any of those seasons. It’s not that Graney was a bad player, he wasn’t. Graney walked a ton and got on base at a great clip, and if […]
Sam Rice never played enough on both sides of the ball to qualify as a two-way player during his Major League Baseball career. He only had two seasons where he pitched, and he never made more than 5 appearances on the mound. He did have two seasons in the minors where he qualified as a […]
Bobby Wallace was just too good of a fielder. He’s a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame mainly because of his fielding ability. His hitting stats are rather average, but all who watched him considered him possibly the best defensive shortstop of the Deadball Era. He wasn’t always a light-hitting middle infielder. When […]
I have no idea how good of a two-way player George Hunter was in 1908. He spent that season with the Nashville Volunteers of the Southern Association. The reason I don’t know and the reason no one really knows is that there are no pitching stats for Hunter in that season. We do know that […]