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The Royals should probably stop yanking Hunter Dozier around on defense

Hunter Dozier was drafted as a shortstop out of Stephen F. Austin University. This is not unusual, as the players who are athletic enough to go in the first round of an MLB draft also tend to be the most athletic player on their college team, and the most athletic players on any given baseball team tend to play shortstop.

Dozier, however, has played all of 78 professional innings at shortstop and none since the year he was drafted. This, too, is not unusual. The level of competition within every MLB organization is such that even the most athletic collegiate college players aren’t usually the most athletic players within an organization.