Undying fan loyalty? Why?

[mrbaseball]

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what defensive statistics are you looking at? the ones i have show konerko, crede and podsednik as three consistently average to below-average defenders

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Any stat that ever showed Crede as a below average defender is a bad stat. This guy has been spectaluar in the field since day one and consistently getting better. Konerko and Uribe have always fielded well regardless of what stathead numbers may indicate although Koneko did seem to field better than ever last year. Uribe in particular has always been airtight defensively. As far a Pods goes replacing Carlos Lee with a speedy CF type in left has to be an upgrade (defensively) but I'm not impressed with Pods in the field at all. He can go get them but loses alot of balls in the sky/sun and has a girlarm.