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five-tool player en · NOUN

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1. A player who can hit for a high batting average, hit for power, run the bases well, throw well and field well.
   • Five-tool player who hits for avg., power, runs, throws, fields. 1993 March, “1993 American League Rookie Scouting Reports”, in Baseball Digest, page 57:
   • Griffey is the complete player, one who is known as a five-tool player. 2000, Jeff Savage, Sports Great: Ken Griffey, Jr., Enslow Publishers, →ISBN, page 11:
   • The original five-tool player, Ewing is widely considered the greatest ballplayer of the nineteenth century. 2010, Dan Fost, Giants Past & Present, MBI Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 70:

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