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" As Baker reports, last year Jose finished behind Carlos Silva..."
Is this tongue in cheek Doc? Lopez is slow but not that slow. Baker wrote that and in the same article corrected it later. IMO, I thought he wrote that piece in a very poor lierature style, as many readers could be misled.
"Wait, what's that? It wasn't Lopez who got smoked by Silva? It was Felix Hernandez? Lopez merely got waxed by Adrian Beltre, Mike Morse and company? Well, that changes everything. Wrong Venezuelan. Forget what I said, Lopey. I'm not sorry. ..."
But back to the main point. Many just consider Chone's UZR or defensive stats at 3rd the last couple of years and ignore completely stats pre-2008. Yet when they "judge" Chone as a 2B, they consider his defensive metrics way, way back. What I am saying is, assuming he did improve defensively the last couple of years, we don't know if the improvement of Chone at 3B could be translated to 2B, but I am sure glad the org is willing to try to find it as early as now.