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And Moore is apples-to-oranges here. Perfectly valid point.
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The broad idea we're getting at ... you'd be surprised, though, the catchers who developed as hitters 2-to-4 years later than they would have if they'd been playing 1B.
Take Mickey Tettleton as an example. In the majors at 23, still running a 68 OPS+ at age 26, broke out only at age 28 with a long string of 135-150 OPS+.
Todd Hundley terrible in the bigs for 5 full years, then became a virtual MVP candidate in years 6-8.
Darren Daulton with a career OPS+ of 90, tracked about like we'd expect Rob Johnson to do, then at age 30 jelled as an MVP candidate.
You could find 50 catchers like that -