My random thoughts about the Reds, all-time Reds greats, and baseball in general resulted in me wondering what was Pete Roses's best defensive position in the field?
We know he played many positions:
1B, 2B, 3B, LF, CF, & RF, but which position was his best defensively. I'm perceiving the word best as supported by statistics and the eye test of those who watched him play.
I wasn't alive for the prime of Pete's career or the Big Red Machine World Series victories of 1975 and 1976. I only saw Pete play live when I was too young to know what I was watching.
He won a Gold Glove in 1969 (56 games in CF and 101 games in RF) and in 1970 (1 game in LF, 5 games in CF, and 155 games in RF). For the back-to-back World Series wins, he primarily played 3B. His games played by position is interesting when considering the totals:
1B- 939
LF- 673
3B- 634
2B- 628
RF- 590
CF- 73
He also pinch-hit 97 times and pinch-ran 3 times.
I've looked at his fielding stats and I'm left wondering, what was Pete's best defensive position? What do the stats reveal and what do those who watched him play think?
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...ndard_fielding
Any RedsZoner's with an opinion? My apology if creating a topic like this is unwarranted (this is a tough board for starting topics, I'm not trying to upset the moderators with my topic creation).