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ATLANTA — There’s only one slight flaw in this delightful narrative about the starting center fielders in Tuesday’s All-Star Game being the Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Tigers’ Javy Baez, who were traded for each other when Baez was a Cub and Crow-Armstrong a Mets prospect in 2021.
And that flaw is the thing nobody’s talking about, which is that Baez isn’t even a real center fielder. No, the dude is still primarily a shortstop, definitely a middle infielder and — some things don’t change — completely at home in the dirt.