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kpresidente · 11-02-2008, 11:10 AM

Phillips made a lot of errors when he played SS because he was a bad fielder at the time, not because he has a problem with SS, per se. Cleveland moved him to 2B and he still made a lot of errors. His first year with us, he played 2B he made 16 errors.

The next year he had 8 and 7 last year.

The point is, his fielding in general has improved. There's no reason to think that if we moved him to SS, he'd have the same troubles as he did early in his career.

11-02-2008, 11:10 AM	#5
kpresidente Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,421	Re: Roberts - revisited Phillips made a lot of errors when he played SS because he was a bad fielder at the time, not because he has a problem with SS, per se. Cleveland moved him to 2B and he still made a lot of errors. His first year with us, he played 2B he made 16 errors. The next year he had 8 and 7 last year. The point is, his fielding in general has improved. There's no reason to think that if we moved him to SS, he'd have the same troubles as he did early in his career.