I'm not talking about his hitting. Goins' defence has been remarkably consistent in the MLB, there's no denying that. So stop pretending you can just pluck a generic middle infielder from the minors and think they'll be as consistent as Goins defensively, because that's a stretch. If there's a minor league player with as good or not better defence than Goins (which i'm sure there are), he's either a legit prospect or a player who won't hit as well as Goins in the bigs, or else they would be already up here (or a swing man at least).