Last season, Cubs super-utility man Ben Zobrist hit .272 with 18 home runs, played 20 games at all three outfield positions, he started more than 100 times at second base, hit from seven different spots in the batting order, played first base and shortstop and picked up four at-bats as a pinch hitter.
"There have really been only two Ben Zobrists in the past 50 years and one of them is Ben Zobrist," David Schoenfield wrote in a Dec. 28 post for ESPN.com.
According to Schoenfield, Wilmer Flores is the best young candidate on the Mets to be groomed in to their version of Zobrist, i.