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Majors' Five-Tool Players Who Are They?(skills of baseball players)
HIT FOR AVERAGE, HIT FOR POWER, STRONG THROWING ARM, RUN THE BASES SKILLFULLY, PLAY SOLID DEFENSE
THE PRECIOUS FIVE-TOOL PLAYER. The precious five-tool player? In a game full of such labels and rash generalizations, it may be the most overused and perhaps even overvalued.
Funny, considering the average baseball fan cannot identify even four of the five tools.
Before delving into how rare the five-tool player is and why having all the tools is not necessarily imperative for superstardom, let us identify the tools in question.
They are: hitting for power, hitting for average, running speed, arm strength, and defensive ability.
An informal survey of several scouts in both leagues yielded just eight legitimate five-tool players in the major leagues today.
A player can be a former five-tooler. Barry Bonds doesn't throw so well anymore. A player can be temporarily stripped of his five-tool status. Atlanta's Andruw Jones is widely considered a poster boy for five-tool players, especially with his batting average moving above the .300 mark in recent years.
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...and average, along with playing the outfield. A "five-tool player," according to scouts. If that's the case, Alomar's...gifted natural athletes. Both are loved by the scouts who check stop watches and stare at batting practice. Both were written...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Majors' Five-Tool Players Who Are They?(skills of baseball players)