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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jun 10, 2019 19:52:26 GMT -5
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Post by wcsoxfan on Jun 10, 2019 23:39:37 GMT -5
The metrics baseball savant has been putting out the last couple of years are pretty amazing. Thank for the link.
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Post by incandenza on Jun 12, 2019 12:44:41 GMT -5
Some interesting stuff on Bradley:
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Post by gerry on Jun 12, 2019 13:15:52 GMT -5
Idk. Perhaps the most consistent element of Bradley’s defense is that he usually glides to the ball’s anticipated landing spot and just puts his glove up to catch it, smooth as silk. He makes most of his catches look easy. He seemingly does this without changing routes except to compensate for wind or come around the ball to position his feet for a good throw to the IF. Even with some of his occasional diving, flying and leaping catches being made due to route adjustments, those adjustments must have been amazingly quick themselves to make catches few can make. The defense of any OF comes as a package, some elements of that package stronger than others. It’s the whole package that counts, and JBJ’s defensive package is rare and often awesome.
Remember when early/introductory UZR stats labelled a very young Ells as a below average defender because, despite his success in CF, he needed speed to compensate for poor routes. The fact that he did compensate and did make the catch was deemed irrelevant, because his routes were poor early in his career. And that label stuck with him for years.. Yikes.
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Post by wcsoxfan on Jun 12, 2019 18:38:52 GMT -5
Remember when early/introductory UZR stats labelled a very young Ells as a below average defender because, despite his success in CF, he needed speed to compensate for poor routes. The fact that he did compensate and did make the catch was deemed irrelevant, because his routes were poor early in his career. And that label stuck with him for years.. Yikes. Young Ellsbury actually had very good defensive UZR numbers aside from 144 innings in left field his rookie year (Fenway LF always seems to dislike fielders without good arms). UZR doesn't know or care how you make the play, only whether you make it. Definition below: The great part of these new metrics us that they not only measure defensive performance in a repeatable non-biased manner, but they also measure the parts that go into that defense performance with more detail than we've seen before. So JBJ has great jumps, takes poor angles and is good at accelerating to the ball. I do wonder how/if the metric accounts for players rounding off their angles to line up for a strong throw to the infield.
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