Now Kinsler, 29, is part of his generation’s Great Positional Debate. Although more geographically disparate than Willie, Mickey and the Duke, it will become a favorite of the tobacco-spitting and wine-sipping sets alike.
Who’s the best second baseman in baseball — Robinson Cano, Dustin Pedroia or Ian Kinsler?
Right now, the correct answer is Kinsler.
As with the shortstops in the early 2000s, the title belt could change hands during the season. But Kinsler has it now. He’s been a little more productive than the steady Pedroia, and Cano is off to a slow start. Kinsler owns the best OPS among major league second basemen — a scalding .945 — and the raw numbers explain only a portion of his value.
...Kinsler has become a fan favorite in Texas, with the high socks and unruly hair making him particularly popular among aspiring Little Leaguers. Just about every week, parents approach Kinsler to say that their son wears his baseball pants up to the knee as a tribute to their favorite player.
“Around the city and at the park, we see a lot of No. 5 jerseys,” Daniels said, “and it’s all for the right reasons.”
The kids know talent. They’re wearing the number of the best second baseman in the game.
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1. Derb Posted: May 03, 2012 at 02:28 PM (#4122668)Yeah, pretty much a coin flip. Still, it's nice to see Kinsler getting the recognition, he really is an outstanding player.
3 sided coinage? Now there's some monetary policy reform I can get behind.
It's already 3-dimensional. How many more sides does it need? I could see 4-sided, but how would you design a 3-sided 3D object?
Edit: I mean with regular sides.
That's the beauty of it. If one could create such a thing it would obviously have infinite value, thereby fixing (sort of) the economy!
EDIT: Also it would benefit nerds by giving them a wider range of dice to use. These things always have negative unintended consequences.
Now, if you insist that the three sides all be isomorphic to each other, you'd need to make something that looked like a football, only with three "sides" instead of four.
Cano, Pedroia and Utley are all excellent players. Yet Kinsler is the one I would want if I could pick one.
I think I'd rather have Pedroia. Kinsler is a little too injury prone for my taste.
Pedroia missing over half the season in 2010 (but playing over 150 games in the 3 of the previous 4 seasons), and Kinsler missing 125 games in the past 4 seasons, Cano shines as the healthiest of the bunch.
We don't need to create such a thing, we already have time cube.
Like this. It's essentially a three-sided cylinder, such that the ends are too small for the die to end up on.
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