Archive for Fielding

It’s time for round two with the most peculiar of defensive hybrids.

Fine tuning the positioning of fielders according to pitch selection

A foray into college defense stats

Come along with Steve as he explores the most extraordinary of all defensive versatility.

The A’s are warming up to their new infield coach, Mike Gallego: Former infielder Mike Gallego played 624 games at second base, 137 at third base and 434 at shortstop and was proficient everywhere. If his managers hadn’t been biased against short people (no offense, Tony La Russa), he probably would have been adept at […]

Ken Griffey will probably DH in Seattle, but he’ll no doubt see some time in left field too. As this wire report notes, that will be a novel thing for him, inasmuch as he has played almost exclusively in center and right over the course of his career. I found Griffey’s comments on that interesting: […]

Rolling out the Big Zone Metric, or BZM.

Willie Mays is helping Aaron Rowand: When Aaron Rowand took a seat at Mays’ table in the Giants’ clubhouse last week, something important was happening. For all the talk of Rowand’s prolonged hitting slump during his first season with the Giants, his fielding troubles might have been more crucial. Rowand did not always get great […]

How to build a detailed fielding metric for the current year from public data, continued.

But first, some tweaking of MLB numbers