What’s the difference between ‘tools’ and ‘skills’?

Tools are the physical gifts a player is born with.  Overall size, strength, agility, foot speed, arm strength, hand/eye coordination, sense of balance and rhythm. Skills are the abilities to field, throw with speed and accuracy, make hard consistent contact and run the bases efficiently. Like power tools in the basement or garage, many of us have them but we have not been professionally trained how to use them. Therefore, we lack the skills necessary to perform certain tasks that our tools are capable of doing.

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