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Matt,
Good call on (AL) OF defense.  Looking on Fangraphs ar E-F over the past decade, two things struck me.  The first is that great E-F doesn't seem to be very repeatable, almost random, though usually associated with a team having an overall good year.  The second was the Mariners in 2001 and 2003, two of the three years with Cammy and Ichiro in the same OF.  In 2003, we had the trifecta of 3 CF in the OF with the addition of Winn.  Both years we were ~-0.50.  In 2002, the other year with Cammy and Ichiro, E-F was near zero.  I would like to hypothesize that E-F ~-0.50 may be more likely to recur with Ichiro, Gut, and whomever in LF.  It is worth looking into it in more depth.  The M's have done it three times now in the past decade, and all with Ichiro and a great CF.