You Could Look It Up

Infinity Edition #4

by Steven Goldman

In the titanic team-up you asked for but never thought you’d get, the current members of Baseball Prospectus have crossed dimensional boundaries to meet their predecessors from Golden Age Baseball Prospectus. The resultant “Crisis on Earth-BP” had many ramifications, not the least of which was the recovery of BP player comments for players who predated the first Baseball Prospectus book in 1996. These are those comments.

The previous installment featured players from the K through O section of the alphabet. This week, we’re departing from the format slightly to take an extended look at one player from the land of P. In the next chapter, which you should see before the next Harry Potter book, we’ll resume with shorter observations of players from Q through U.

DON PADGETT
OF/C ST. LOUIS CARDINALS, 1937-1941

There is a reason catcher isn’t on the defensive spectrum.

When Bill James laid out the defensive spectrum, he left catcher off. The positions, in order of difficultly, went:

DH-1B-LF-RF-3B-CF-2B-SS

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