knucklecup said:
Why is it ridiculous? This is the main board. Make a quality post with facts.
This is something you have yet to do.
Here are some of the first few results from a Google search for "adam dunn defense":
From 2010:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/eight-thoughts-on-adam-dunn/ This has a link to the tangotiger fan scouting project. Since he hasn't played significant time in the field since he's been in the AL, let's go back to the last time he was in the NL:
"Despite being a tremendous hitter, Dunn’s defense both in the outfield and at first base, according to defensive metrics as well as scouting reports, is so dreadful that it seriously compromises his overall value..."
2010: Ranked by fans as the worst defensive player on the Nationals:
http://www.tangotiger.net/scout/2010/index4.php?teamid=120&team=Washington%20Nationals
2009: While mostly playing the outfield, again ranked as the worst defensive player on the Nats:
http://www.tangotiger.net/scout/2009/index4.php?teamid=120&team=Washington%20Nationals
2008: Ranked as the second-worst player on the Red:
http://www.tangotiger.net/scouting/scoutResults2008_CIN.html
OK, maybe the fans who visit Tangotiger's site just have it in for him. Let's see if we can find some professional opinions:
2010: "Report: Nationals unlikely to re-sign Adam Dunn because of his defense:"
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/09/28/report-nationals-unlikely-to-re-sign-adam-dunn-because-of-his-defense/
"today Ben Goessling of MASNSports.com writes that “sources familiar with the team’s thinking” believe “they’re likely to let him walk” as a free agent.
According to Goessling “the team continues to view Dunn’s defense at first base as a sticking point, and is reluctant to give him the four-year deal he prefers because of it.”
Here's his manager, Ventura, in spring training. If there was a time to see if he could get into game shape in the outfield, well, spring training would be it:
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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-09/sports/ct-bits-white-sox-spring-training-spt-0310-20140310_1_dayan-viciedo-left-field-left-shin)
Ventura still insists Dunn will play outfield.
""That'll be in there," he said. "I haven't broken that out yet. Once the roster goes down a little bit, you'll have some flexibility to do that. But we have a lot of guys in the outfield right now. Just making sure they get their time in too. It's not a high priority to get him in the outfield right now."
Ventura said he doesn't plan to play Dunn in the outfield during the season."
It seems like Dunn himself realizes he is a bad defender (
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/adam-dunn-an-oscar-hopeful-as-partial-investor-in-dallas-buyers-club-1.7246577):
"It seems," Dunn joked, "like it always happens to me. The Gold Glove, every year I get snubbed on that, so I'm used to it."
There is absolutely no one in the baseball universe except you who thinks Adam Dunn can play anything more than an emergency left field, even in the smallest park in the majors. He was a disaster when he was in his prime and gave back in the field most of what he gained at the plate. And now he is 5 years older, likely heavier, and certainly out of practice. Even Dunn himself thinks his defense is a joke.
You are making things up with nothing to back them up and when presented with contrary evidence you are doubling down on your incorrect opinions. That you asked for "facts" is laughable. This is an expert troll job or as others said, an insane opinion.