Belanger was part of the era where not much offense was expected out of short stop
The early 1980's changed that with Yount, Ripken, Trammell, etc. Dickie Thon was on his way to join that group when he got beaned,
Today --- most of the playoff teams (if not all) have big production out of SS:
Correa, Lindor, Didi G., Seager. etc.
It's a different world out there indeed. Ed Brinkman, Belanger etc would maybe be a 24th-25th man in today's baseball
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