Category talk:Two-Way Players
Category originally called "Ideal 25th Man" - the initial dialogue below involves the switching of the name
This category sounds rather subjective. Additionally, guys like Caruthers were hardly 25th men, as they were front-line pitchers and position players, not end-of-the-bench guys. I'd vote for eliminating this make-believe category. Does anyone else agree? - --Mischa 07:54, 10 Apr 2006 (EDT)
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I like a category two-way players
I'd change it to something like that
Ron Mahay is another one
Two way players sounds good to me--Just me 10:00, 10 Apr 2006 (EDT)
Then we can also eliminate the converted to/from pitcher in favor of one unified category for the sake of simplicity. - --Mischa 10:06, 10 Apr 2006 (EDT)
Except Two-way players wouldn't cover guys who converted in the minors, however, if you were able to identify all of those, the categories would be pretty big I think.
OTOH, a unified two-way player category would solve the problem of guys like Dave Foutz, who didn't move from pitching to playing the field but rather from pitching and being a position player to just the latter. Others like Dihigo went back and forth between their primary role. At the least, we should rename this category. - --Mischa 19:37, 10 Apr 2006 (EDT)
I don't seem to be able to rename (move) this category --Ron 19:46, 10 Apr 2006 (EDT)
I think all the tags might have to be switched - thankfully there are only a handful. - --Mischa 19:49, 10 Apr 2006 (EDT)
We're up to almost 30. Lots of 19th century guys to cover still, I'm sure. I just caught some of the most obvious ones but plenty of room there. - --Mischa 22:08, 10 Apr 2006 (EDT)
We topped over 200 at some point. - --Mischa 21:03, 19 April 2009 (EDT)
Over 300. A lot of the newer entries are from the European leagues. - --Mischa 16:52, 17 March 2010 (EDT)
If not intended for lesser leagues like those in Europe, we have a decent bit of trimming to do. - Mischa (talk) 16:53, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
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