five-tool player

plural five-tool players · alternative five tool player

1. ball gamesA 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

   2 more examples

   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