常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

5-Tool Players

大リーグのドラフト会議でヤンキースが、日本人高校生 加藤豪将内野手をサプライズ指名したことはすでにふれましたが http://d.hatena.ne.jp/A30/20130607/1370585238、彼のような「守ってもよし、打ってもよし」と評価される選手のことを英語では5-Tool playerということがあります。「5」の中味は加藤君に直接言及したものではありませんが、以下の記事をどうぞ。
abilityをtool(「道具」)で表すところが英語っぽいですね。ちなみに日本語では、「三拍子そろった」と「拍子」で表現することがありますが、こちらはリズム優先なのでしょうか。(UG)

Ranking the 5 Best 5-Tool Players in MLB History

In baseball, all position players are judged on five different abilities. These abilities are hitting for average, hitting for power, base-running, throwing and fielding their respective positions. 

Players who possess more than one of these five "tools" are major league baseball players. Whether they specialize in the hitting aspect, the defensive aspect, or a combination of the two, honing more than one of these abilities to an above-average level gets most players to the major leagues. 

However, the more of these tools a player can master, the more valuable they become. That is why the players who master them all, known as "5-tool players," are considered to be the best players in the game. 

There have been a lot of 5-tool players in the history of the game, but only a handful established themselves and stuck around long enough to garner consideration as the best players in history. So, I've fittingly narrowed the long list down to five.

So here are, in my opinion, the five best 5-tool players of all time.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/853734-ranking-the-5-best-5-tool-players-in-mlb-history