Monday, May 20, 2013
Mackey: Quality of Twins’ defense has garnered mixed reports
(www.1500espn.com)
Wonder if this includes yesterday’s gripping Trevor Ploof…
Read More...But those numbers don’t tell the whole story.
Advanced defensive metrics tell us what our eyes have likely suggested all season—that the Twins’ defense, for the most part, has very limited range.
It’s true that Twins fielders, collectively, don’t make many errors on balls hit to their range radius—but that radius is not very large. And it’s impossible for a fielder to make an error on a ball he can’t get to.
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1. SG posted on August 31, 2012 at 02:42 PM # hit 0 | hit 0“He’s a good player; he’s one of the better defensive infielders, and his bat is a work in progress,” Yogi said.
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Sal B.
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