It’s no secret that defensively Tim Anderson is a below-average shortstop — not absolutely horrible, but not good, either. The weakness in the field was easier to overlook, though, when he was hitting well and infusing spirit in the White Sox. Unfortunately, neither of those positives apply this year.
While it’s easy to see that TA is a step below most major league shortstops of the 2020s, and a couple of flights of stairs below Francisco Lindor or Carlos Correa or a few others, the question here is how he stacks up historically among those who held the position for several years for the Sox.