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And the only argument I can see for keeping Edgar Martinez out of the hall is his lack of a fielding position. However, my own player rating methodology gives him essentially zero fielding value and still thinks he's greater than all but four third basemen in the game's history (Schmidt, Brett, Boggs and Mathews...that's it). Can you have a career as relatively short as Edgar's was, not play a fielding position, and still be more valuable to your teams than (say) Brooks Robinson or Pie Traynor or Paul Molitor, or Chipper Jones? I believe you can, yes.