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Defense A Key For These Red Sox
One thing Boston has not been able to do the last few years is field a championship-caliber defensive team. There are many different reasons for that, having to do with the construction of the roster, injuries, or even just players not doing as well as they were expected to, but it's been tough to...
Top 5 OF Arms
Graph of the Day Notes and questions are listed below. You can read them by clicking the link that says "Continue reading this post". Notes 1. I used the average +/- OF arm runs and UZR OF arm runs. 2. This is obviously extremely sensitive to small sample size. 3. Data courtesy of...
Defense and the 2010 Giants
I don’t know quite how to read this chart: Well, I have a guess as to how it should be read – it involves some peyote, an Emerson, Lake, and Palmer album, and an experienced guide – but that’s just a guess. It seems, though, that it means good things for the Giants....
Is There Any Hope For Luis Castillo's Defense?
It appears Luis Castillo will be the Mets' primary second baseman in 2010, despite reported attempts by the front office to trade him this offseason. Moving Castillo for basically anything (except Gary Matthews Jr.) and targeting Felipe Lopez or Adam Kennedy was/is the smart play, but there haven't...
Omar Vizquel is Official
I held off on commenting on the long-rumored Omar Vizquel signing for two reasons; one, it's pretty tough to get excited about the signing of a back-up shortstop, even if he happens to be one of the best defenders in the history of the game; and two, I wasn't going to waste the energy on a deal...
The 2009 Diamondbacks Season, Part VI: Defense
Few losses were more spectacularly painful for the 2009 Diamondbacks than the one which we endured in Seattle on June 21st. With the game tied in the bottom of the ninth, Clay Zavada loaded the bases with two down. Enter Chad Qualls, who got a ground-ball to Mark Reynolds, who made a perfect throw...
Alex Cora To Return In 2010? Say It Ain't So Adam Rubin
In a recap of last night's game, Adam Rubin inserted a couple blurbs about the Mets' backup middle infield situation next season: [Anderson] Hernandez has demonstrated he doesn’t have the aptitude to play shortstop at the major-league level—even if he could handle second base. This is...
Graph of the Day: UZR's Error Component and Unearned Runs
Continuing with the theme this week of defensive metrics their interpretations, today's graph examines the ErrR, or Error Runs, component of UZR on a team level. We should expect a team's unearned runs (Runs - Earned Runs, of course) to correlate strongly to Error Runs on a team level. In order...
Graph of the Day: Range Factor
Yesterday, I posted a graph that showed quite conclusively that Fielding Percentage is a meaningless statistic when talking about defensive impact on runs allowed. As commenter CoachOfEarl brought up in the corresponding thread, a slightly more advanced statistic called Range Factor (RF) also has...
Graph of the Day: The Nate McLouth Factor
EDIT: Thanks for BobbyMac in the comments for pointing out a flaw in my data. It's not quite as much fun as the original results, but it's still pretty conclusive. Expect a couple more graphs later today tomorrow, too. Listening to broadcasts crews and the mainstream media talk about defense can...
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