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Originally Posted by Assos
Ozzie was a good glove.
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Understatement of the year.
In the last half century, Ozzie Smith and Mark Belanger are pretty much in a class by themselves defensively, both from the anecdotal and statistical sides.
(BB-Ref has new fielding based metrics, that are nice.)
And Ozzie between Ozzie and Mark, Ozzie wasn't an automatic out, walked twice as much, was probably a better bunter and stole about three times as many bases. Plus, he's probably one of the best ambassadors of baseball over that time.