Runs by Position

Interesting post from Tom Tango today about the offensive performance by decade of the various defensive positions (pitchers excluded):

Offense by Position Groups by Decade

If you're looking for a nice tidbit, the final word correlates pretty nicely with the scale of defensive difficulty:

Merging everything, since 1980s:

SS -19.6
C -16.3
2B -9.6
CF -1.5
3B +0.4
RF 10.5
LF 10.5
1B 18.4