The Answer

is two. That's how many tools AROD can presently boast. He still hits for power and he still runs pretty well, but noone who hovers between the 270s and 280s can be said to hit for average, his fielding is atrocius and his arm is well nigh pathological. So he's now a 2 tool player. For the kind of 2=tool player he is, please see BGW's comment on my last post. He has discovered incredibly telling statistical evidence to bear out our sense that AROD regularly founders in the clutch and fails the small ball test miserably.

Everyone wondered when Boston acquired Josh Beckett whether he could really pitch a full season, given that he'd never reached 200 innings before. The good news for the chowderheads is that he can pitch late in the season; the bad news is that he can't pitch at all well. He's hit some sort of rookie wall it looks like.