| Tm | Lg | Year | G | AB | R | H | BB | SO | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | K/W | BABIP | G/L/F % | $4x4 | $5x5 |
| DET | AL | 2007 | 66 | 166 | 24 | 45 | 9 | 29 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 4 | 1 | .271 | .307 | .355 | 3.2 | .319 | n/a | 4 | 4 |
| ATL | NL | 2008 | 96 | 317 | 45 | 93 | 22 | 44 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 40 | 0 | 1 | .293 | .338 | .416 | 2.0 | .333 | n/a | 8 | 9 |
| ATL | A | 2009 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .294 | .400 | .294 | 0.7 | .333 | n/a | ||
| ATL | NL | 2009 | 70 | 203 | 24 | 62 | 19 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 2 | 0 | .305 | .361 | .389 | 1.5 | .347 | n/a | 7 | 7 |
| ATL | NL | 2010 | 134 | 471 | 65 | 151 | 29 | 62 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 47 | 7 | 6 | .321 | .359 | .416 | 2.1 | .357 | n/a | 20 | 20 |
| FLA | NL | 2011 | 148 | 579 | 55 | 160 | 34 | 67 | 24 | 8 | 7 | 49 | 4 | 2 | .276 | .315 | .382 | 2.0 | .303 | 42/22/36 | 13 | 13 |
| Career | 10yrs | 942 | 3162 | 381 | 869 | 204 | 507 | 153 | 32 | 52 | 317 | 47 | 23 | .275 | .318 | .393 | 2.5 | .314 | ||||
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Alex 4 days ago
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As with all defensive metrics, including errors, there’s a lot of discretion among the scorers, both official and unofficial. Baseball Reference tells us that Infante turned 75 double plays last year. It doesn’t tell us how many he didn’t turn. It doesn’t tell us whether he got good or bad feeds from Hanley Ramirez (we can guess). Hanley played only 86 games at SS, so he doesn’t make the Handbook’s cut for SS Pivot %. But Rollins and Utley do, and Rollins turned a whole bunch of DP’s (72 percent), Utley comparatively few (50 percent). Did Utley make good feeds to Rollins and Rollins bad feeds to Utley? Or were the 6-4-3 chances just much more difficult than the 4-6-3 chances? Or did Utley, with his physical problems, not have his usual agility? The eleven voters for the Handbook’s Fielding Bible Awards ranked Utley sixth in the majors last year with 50 points. All eleven had him somewhere on their ballot (ranging from Peter Gammons, first, to Doug Glanville, tenth). Infante actually got three votes, good for 15 points, tying him with Danny Espinosa as the tenth guy on the list. The Handbook also has Runs Saved and Plus/Minus Leaders, John Dewan’s brainchild. It combines a whole bunch of numbers, all of which depend on the judgment of the BIS scorers, “to form a complete evaluation of a fielder.” Infante’s not in the top ten. Nor is Utley. Baseball Reference gives Infante a dWAR of 1.7 last season, the best of his career. His oWAR was also 1.7 and his 3.4 overall WAR score is the best of his career by a lot. Not to us, mind. He was a better player in 2010. By a lot. But the fact is, with his defensive prowess added in, Omar Infante produced darn near as many Wins Above Replacement as Chase Utley did in 2011 . Darn near (Utley’s WAR scores: 2.8 for his hitting, 0.8 for his defense, 3.6 in total). Actually, Infante came perilously close to Utley in $4x4 and $5x5, but that’s a whole different issue. We accept that Utley was a terrible disappointment and Infante, against all expectations, a nice surprise. We are long used to disappointment and surprise in our crude way of measuring things. My question for those who have read this far: suppose we used the more refined measurement that so many people here place great stock in? Simply add up all the WAR scores of all the hitters and pitchers on active rosters and declare the team with the highest total the champ. Would that be more realistic? Hence more fun? Or would we be driven crazy? |
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Rotoman 4 days ago
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I know nothing about this stat, but in 98 games I doubt there's more than 150 chances. Do hopeless pivots where the ball get there too late count? It would take a lot to turn a good percentage into a bad one. Having a bad partner would seem to be key to failure. | |
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Alex 4 days ago
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The NL leader in 2B Pivot % with .695. The ninth player on this list in the Bill James Handbook is Darwin Barney (.569) and then there's a big drop to the tenth player, Chase Utley (.500).
Minimum 98 games to qualify for this list. Too bad the cut-off isn't something like 50 games; we'd get a better idea of how Utley stacks up. I have to think converting only half your DP chances isn't very good. Whereas converting 70 percent is clearly very good. |
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