Where would we be without the good glove men who can’t hit their own body weight? I’ll tell you where: Nowheresville. Not that all of these players are hopeless with the stick. Some are youngsters, just getting their feet wet in the majors. Others, because of age or a capricious God, just aren’t having a terrific 2013.
All-Field, No-Hit Stars
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If Andrelton Simmons and Darwin Barney played for the same team, two things would happen: 1) someone would write a poem about them* and 2) Baseball Tonight would become the highest-rated television show in history. Let’s make this happen, Lords of Baseball. “Best interests of baseball,” and all that.
* Hopefully using the word “gonfalon.”
| Pos | Player | Tm | Fld* | OPS+ |
| C | Jeff Mathis | MIA | 5.6 | 62 |
| 1B | Sean Rodriguez | TBR | 5.2 | 90 |
| 2B | Darwin Barney | CHC | 10.3 | 64 |
| SS | Andrelton Simmons | ATL | 23.1 | 76 |
| 3B | Nolan Arenado | COL | 18.9 | 85 |
| OF | Lorenzo Cain | KCR | 17 | 89 |
| OF | A.J. Pollock | ARI | 16.9 | 89 |
| OF | Ichiro Suzuki | NYY | 10.7 | 81 |
| OF | David Murphy | TEX | 10.4 | 76 |
* FanGraphs’ Fielding Runs Above Average, based on UZR.
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