What I find odd is that when you look at value to a team, second base is actually more valuable defensively than shortstop. Mind you, value is a different thing than difficulty and importance, but second basemen make far more plays than a shortstop.....this is odd because we gladly accept a below average second baseman to get his bat in the lineup.

I suppose my point is that you measure players by taking BOTH their fielding and hitting. Undoubtedly, if you replaced Everett with anyone else in baseball you would lose runs with the glove, but you would gain runs with the bat with almost every other shortstop.

While I'm at it, please stop mentioning the 20+ RBIs. RBIs are opportunity stats that only measure how many opportunities you take advantage of. So, Everett's RBI total is likely more of a factor of the NUMBER of opportunities he has had than his production in this opportunities. To put it more simply, I'm confident that at least 25 shortstops in baseball (if not more) would produce as many if not more RBIs with the same opportunities.