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Think everyone would prefer a 70 hitter, a guy who is a solid-feeling Edgar type, especially when you're skittish about what a young guy will do...
Flip side though is that many of the most awesome wrecking machine get the bat out in front... Papi, Howard, Bonds, Junior, Giambi etc etc get shifted because you make a mistake and the pitch is leaving the barrel of the bat at 105 mph... This means a pull swing on which the bat had time to accelerate...
Tex became a shift kinda guy because he is that good at punishing anything less than a pitcher's pitch...
As well, pull-or-not is not a defining characteristic in my book... Junior did, Mays didn't, but you're hardly going to comp those two to anybody else....

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