This also gives pause to any ideas that this team was going to stress OBP, when they get a 4th outfielder who can't get on base. He's nothing special defensively either. But he gets his hits in bunches, so people think he's better than he is, and he made "the catch", which has forever overrated his defensive skills.
And 4th outfielder is not 25th man on the roster.
I must correct myself - his stellar .295 obp for the Sox last year, raised his career obp to .264.
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