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Saturday, April 28, 2007
I have created a new defensive measure using retrosheet event files. I look at how many plays a fielder makes in comparisons to how many hits land in his general direction, then control for park, batter hand, and a few other things.
For recent years (2003-2006) retrosheet does not have detailed hit location, so I’m treating each outfield and infield spot as one big zone.
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Sean Smith and Jeff Sackmann now have this data for the minor league level up on minorleaguesplits.com. Here's Sean's recent summary bit on it from the Hardball Times.
(Very, very) Initially, I'm not super keen on these results - they don't look as stable (y-t-y) or as consistent w/ the scouty consensus as I'd like, but Sean's covers this stuff pretty well in his aforementioned piece.
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