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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Maybe McCarthy became adept at such fielding tricks as trapping fly balls because he just wasn't such a great fielder.

Statistics seem to say he was slightly worse than his contemporaries in both getting to and catching balls.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mccarto01.shtml

Although they played different positions, Arlie Latham was statistically a better fielder than McCarthy as well.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lathaar01.shtml