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Cockcroft: Best Tools for Fantasy

By Tristan H. Cockcroft
ESPN.com

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

"Five-tool player" is a phrase often thrown around throughout the baseball world, used to describe those exciting, franchise-player types. What it describes are five abilities considered key to success in the game: hitting for average, hitting for power, baserunning, fielding and throwing. Few players truly are worthy of "five-tool" status, but the ones who are, they're the ones a major league team can build around. For fantasy, though, those franchise types get identified a little differently. ...

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