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Originally Posted by rats60
Lol. Leach was such a great 3rd baseman that is why he played most of his games in the outfield.
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He played almost 1000 games at third base. Granted, that is half of what Traynor played at the position. But if you take the totality of his career versus Traynor's, or if you extrapolate Leach's 3B numbers to a 154 game schedule and do the same for Traynor, Leach is the better player.
I will grant you that he was not a 3B his entire career (basically half of his career) and that perhaps that should take him out of the discussion. But Leach was a better player at 3B for the Pirates than was Traynor, and he did so over a fairly large number of years.
Tom C
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Also, total games played by position for Leach as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates:
3B 850
OF 630