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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Couple things...
1) Myers was a catcher for his senior year of high school (played CF and SS and 3B before that), then played 1/2 of his 2009 Minor League games there and 75/126 games there in 2010. He is not a lifelong catcher (and, judging by reports of his defensive abilities behind the plate, was never really a catcher, anyway).
2) I disagree that you need plus speed to play CF. It is a nice tool to have, but there have been a lot of very good CF who did not have more than decent speed (Dale Murphy, Jim Edmonds, to name a few modern ones). Myers has good-enough speed - for now - to play CF. The bigger question I'd have is how he reads the ball and what kind of routes he takes. If he reads it well and takes good routes, Myers can be an acceptable CF defender.
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Reading the ball is easier in CF than for corner spots because the ball doesn't tend to have as much spin on it when hit up the middle.