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Chris CountsBilly Cox perfectly illustrates the challenge of rating players defensively. Until today, I never considered the possibility that he was as good or better at playing third base than Brooks Robinson. Yet after Jodi's comment, I Googled him and found out that more than one baseball historian considers him the greatest of all third basemen from defensive perspective. Just think how people would percieve him today if the camera work that captured Robinson in the 1970 World Series had been available in the early 1950s ...