five-tool player
noun1
Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports 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:
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- 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: