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Evaluating Mets Baserunning

— metstailgate.com — I wrote an evaluation of the 2008 Mets non-stolen base/caught stealing baserunning at Amazin' Avenue . Using... Baseball Prospectus's baserunning stats, we can see how many runs above or below average a player contributes by advancing on groundouts, ... (more) Evaluating Mets Baserunning

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The Best Baserunners of 2008
Beyond the Box Score — ... Fortunately, Dan Fox has done the work and baserunning data for the past two years is freely available over at Baseball Prospectus.  For as much frustration as we have with BPro, this data is fantastic.  You can find the baserunning report here.  There are five baserunning categories listed, plus the total: ...

Adding Value on the Bases
Lookout Landing — ... Well... We still have one factor missing and that's base running. We know Ichiro is a fantastic base stealer, no matter how often other members of the Seattle Mariners think he should be attempting to steal. Dan Fox, one of the good guys at BP, has put together some base running figures and 2007 and 2008 data is freely available here. Ichiro came in with an additional seven runs in 2007, tenth best in baseball. However, in 2008, Ichiro topped even that, notching a whopping 12.7 runs, tops in all of baseball. 12.7 runs is huge! And it's split about evenly between ...

Running Amok
FanGraphs Baseball — ... Dan Fox does tremendous work in baseball research and he’s compiled some base running figures for Baseball Prospectus. The figures are free of charge and accessible here. Just make note that the final figure, EQBRR includes the stolen base component (EQSBR) so if you want to make some adjustment to FanGraphs values, you’ll have to add in the difference between EQBRR and EQSBR, not the whole of EQBRR itself. ...

Evaluating Mets Baserunning
Amazin' Avenue — ... Baseball Prospectus has some great baserunning stats linked here, which indicate how many runs above or below average a player's baserunning ability is worth. Stolen bases/caught stealings (SB/CS) and advancement on groundouts, flyouts, hits, passed balls, wild pitches, and balks are considered. Based on an idea from ...