In reply to: Jimmy Rollins disagrees * posted by veets
He's just blocked by Francisco Lindor, so he went for position flexibility to get to the bigs. He knew he was blocked at SS.
He was drafted as a SS. He's played the vast majority of his Minor League games at SS, but yes, he's added positional flexibility to continue to move up the ladder. Jett Williams wasn't going to play SS for the New York Mets while Francisco Lindor was in his prime.
Yes, highly, highly, HIGHLY unusual, maybe even unprecedented, and downright astonishing, but you do know of one.