On more thing, because I really do get misinterpeted a lot (and all of it tends to me my own fault).
I never said Andruw Jones nor Jim Edmonds were bad centerfielders. Neither did I say Vizquel and Wilson are bad shortstops. That tends to be the way some fans will place such things, if you're not the greatest, then by golly you're the worst.
I don't do that. (although I will say I did think Rey Ordonez was an average shortstop).
Andruw Jones' style of centerfield play reminds of the things folks said about HOF Tris "The Grey Eagle" Speaker. So if being reminded of the style of play of one of the all-time greats is damning with faint praise, so be it. I think Jones, like Speaker, know or have (had) confidence in their ability to make up for playing a shallow centerfield. So does Jim Edmonds.
Doesn't mean they're fundamentally better than Beltran, because they're not. I'd rather take Beltran if I were choosing a true centerfielder on my team. My choice is based on being fundamentally sound, so I know that centerfield will have someone there to handle the routine almost 99% of the time and the hard will be handled with less stress than watching someone doing the swan dive to his left or right, or face plant on the wall because they couldn't get back to the wall in enough time to turn and catch the ball without the leap.