If you can play SS, you can most likely play 3rd (or OF). And if you can play CF, you can play LF or RF Sadly Weeks was a 2b/CF that couldn’t play any position well, except DH. But besides him, this philosophy holds Well. The organization kept thinking he could play 2b average or better because of his athleticism/tools, but it never really worked out. If they tried him in the OF perhaps it could have worked out better, perhaps not. If you don't have the speed/skill/instincts/arm for CF you shouldn't play there. I would guess Rickie lacked enough of those things to stay at being a poor second basemen or else the organization would have made him a less poor CFer or LFer...