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Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
UZR's Best And Worst
Those heroes and villains relevant to this blog:
Pos Player UZR Comments
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1B Kotchman +20 Best listed in either league
Sexson -11 Worst listed in either league
2B Kent -23 Worst listed in either league
SS Tulowitzki +20
Vizquel +16 What the ...??
Eckstein -10 Age taking its toll?
Jeter -27 Worst shortstop in the league
3B Figgins -11 Sigh
Atkins -23 Apparently not there for his glove
LF Soriano +16 Lousy 2B, great LF
Holliday +13 All this and fielding, too
Ibanez -30
CF Matthews -11 I don't believe it -- he's mediocre
Suzuki -14 Pretty sure I don't believe this, either
RF Guillen -21
That means the Mariners were easily putting out the most inept defensive outfield in the division, and possibly the league. I have my beef with the Ichiro rating, because he seems to me to get to a lot of balls.
Labels: sabermetrics
Comments:
This seems almost worthless. I don't agree with many of these ratings. Isn't it skewed by whether a team has many ground ball pitchers as opposed to fly ball pitchers or vice versa? As an example, I don't believe that Rowand and Sizemore have the most range in their respective leagues, though they are good fielders.
UZR seems to have a lot of respect in the saber-world, but as they say, even the best advanced fielding metrics are iffy. There are people who sniff at Rate2.
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