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Dialed In — Monday, June 07, 2010Weekly DRS Update (Defensive Stats through games of June 6, 2010)Best defensive player in the NL thus far has been Chase Utley, which is pretty typical. Chase is several runs ahead of the Angel Pagan, Andres Torres and Matt Holliday. The player with the worst DRS is Pittsburgh’s Aki Iwamura, but that whole Pirate team is a mess. Honorable mention to the Bucs’ Lastings Milledge and the Astros’ Carlos Lee. The surprise here is Pedro Feliz. Maybe he finally hit the wall, but he has always been a very good defensive player and as yet has struggled. Best defensive player in the AL has been Alberto Callaspo for the Royals. At the other end of the spectrum, Howie Kendrick has clearly heard enough about Derek Jeter’s weak defense and has gone screaming past him with extra poor performance. Kendrick had a very bad week afield. Team-wise, the Detroit Tigers and Seattle Mariners have performed the best and neither is a surprise. The team at the bottom is the Cleveland Indians, which is unusual for them. They have played only half as bad as the Pirates. For your enjoyment, here is the Fangraphs leaderboard and the TZ leaderboard at Baseball-Reference. The biggest difference I can spot is Carl Crawford leads both of those ratings, and is a +2 (a difference of about 6 runs). |
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1. Chris Dial Posted: June 07, 2010 at 02:33 PM (#3552195)Isn't this the same Callaspo that has been repeatedly talked-down by the Royals because of his defense at 2B? They really don't know what they're doing, do they?
Are you joking? You can't even hit a ball past the pitcher with a glove. It's too soft!
I still remember Sheehan raving about Corey Hart's defense years back and wondering what the h*ll he was referencing. Hart has a poor arm and after a few injuries has become even more wall shy. He's fine coming in but a disaster going back on a ball. Gomez has also been a real disappointment. He keeps misjudging balls and having to leap to snare them before they go over his head. And obviously he isn't always successful.
I know. It was more a comment about how the Royals had an obvious asset that they seemed determined to turn into a non-asset - they replaced Callaspo at 2B with an obviously inferior hitter in the offseason, and were talking about him as a bench guy for a while.
So much for the new management's blueprint.
Is this sarcastic, because he was legitimately awful at second base last year, empirically and statistically. Or maybe you don't know that his stellar defense is coming at third, not second. His poor defense in the majors prior to this year was mystifying. In the minors he was said to be a solid shortstop who moved off the position because of Erick Aybar and then played a good second base. How did he go from there to an awful second baseman with stone hands?
Not true. I've seen Vlad Guerrero, Bobby Abreu, and Gary Matthews Jr. hit the ball pretty far with their gloves. The Mariners are just weak. Must be the revolutionary idea of no weights in the exercise room.
I hope the present presentation is to everyone's liking.
You really need to take into account Chris's comment about the effect of poor pitching on the defense. Something is awry with the Pirates right now, but it's very difficult to suss out whether it is the pitching or the defense. For example, there was NO indication that McCutchen should be a -6 during his minor league time, I mean that almost doesn't make any sense given his raw athletic ability. I think the Pirates are really a hot mess right now in the field (pitching and defense), so sophisticated models are going to break down.
We'll see how he ends up (but this week is even worse for Pittsburgh).
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