Posted by MikeT23 on 7/28/2014 4:07:00 PM (view original):
Source?
I won't disgree with the catcher part but I doubt the rest.
Too much work to look up an adequate sample size to really make meaningful claims, especially given that I know enough of the history of enough players to make it tough to choose a fair sampling without checking virtually everyone. So let's just compromise on this one and agree that a disproportionately large proportion of Major League players played SS or CF in high school, but maybe not "almost every Major League ballplayer" was a SS.
Although I do know that Jim Thome and Miguel Cabrera were both SS's before being drafted, so there is that.