five-tool player

• five tool player

five-tool player (plural five-tool players)

1. (baseball) A player who can hit for a high batting average, hit for power, run the bases well, throw well and field well.
   • 1993 March, “1993 American League Rookie Scouting Reports”, in Baseball Digest‎, page 57:

     Five-tool player who hits for avg., power, runs, throws, fields.

   • 2000, Jeff Savage, Sports Great: Ken Griffey, Jr., Enslow Publishers, →ISBN, page 11:

     Griffey is the complete player, one who is known as a five-tool player.

   • 2010, Dan Fost, Giants Past & Present‎, MBI Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 70:

     The original five-tool player, Ewing is widely considered the greatest ballplayer of the nineteenth century.