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Defensive Charts by Baseball Musings
2005-03-27 21:31
Graphic illustrations of how well every ballplayer fields, courtesy of David Pinto at Baseball Musings. The X axis, I believe, is a physical representation of the range a ballplayer covers in a given situation, while the Y axis shows the quantity of outs recorded, with the black line showing actual outs and the yellow line showing expected outs. My favorite at first glance: Adrian Beltre on bunts. Supoib. Here are the charts for Jeff Kent - pretty much at expected level on grounders to second base. Here's Alex Cora - just a hair better. Feel free to add your own discoveries ... (Pinto recently also gave us day-by-day offensive stats for any player. Great stuff.)
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I think you're misreading the graphs. Kent is quite strong on grounders straight to him and grounders to his left, and kind of weak on grounders to his right. Cora is a nightmare on grounders - he's slightly above average on the ones right toward him, but he's poor to his left and even poorer to his right.
If you look at the red line, it shows outs recorded relative to expected outs.
It's also interesting that Beltre apparently played pretty far off the line.
They're just for 2004. It says so at the top ;)
Not sure exactly what the error bars mean, but they seem to cover just about everybody. So even Beltre's huge advantage on bunts is contained within the error bars. Same with Cora's and Kent's range. I mean, it's pretty easy to see that Beltre is awesome on those slow rollers, anyone could see that by watching a few games. But I'm just pointing out that what looks like a "huge" difference on Beltre, and the differences you're comparing between Cora and Kent are all within the error bars.
Cesar Izturis is a bit below average in the 3B hole, and great at going up the middle. Probably part of this is due to the fact that Beltre was taking stuff in the hole, playing off the line, as Tom noted.
^^^^^^ slightly bitter
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