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It's Just Sports: The Links: Are the Tigers pursuing Ardolis Chapman and Michigan football is still being investigated
Amazin' Avenue: Pedro Applesauce - Wright is one of league's worst fielders, Mets should avoid Vlad, Pedro to start game 2
Milwaukee Brewers Blog - Bernie's Crew: Round 'em Up: Tuesday 10.27.09
The Links: Are the Tigers pursuing Ardolis Chapman and Michigan football is still being investigated
It's Just Sports —
... : Are the Tigers in on Cuban sensation Ardolis Chapman? Hardball Times : The worst fielders in baseball this season and no Tigers make the list. Nice work. ...
Pedro Applesauce - Wright is one of league's worst fielders, Mets should avoid Vlad, Pedro to start game 2
Amazin' Avenue —
Only one more day until the non-Met baseball world is dead to me.
Meet the Mets
The worst series in the world for Mets fans is getting a fair amount of press around the area and in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer seems to think that Met fans will root for the Phillies.
Jenrry Mejia had his strongest outing of the AFL season to date yesterday.
Congratulations to David Wright for being one of Hardball Times' worst fielders of the year.
Ed Ryan at ...
Round 'em Up: Tuesday 10.27.09
Milwaukee Brewers Blog - Bernie's Crew —
... and worst fielders of 2009. Franklin Gutierrez is absolutely ridiculous in center field for the Seattle Mariners. Jack Zduriencik has done a fine job valuing defense to upgrade the Mariners' organization as a whole. ...
10/28 - Catching Up and Slowing Down
Over the Monster —
... on the traditional statistics that have been proven, both numerically and logically, to be less-than-effective indicators of defensive ability. Aside from all the issues with the scoring of errors, there's a major issue with comparing Bay's assists to most other fielders': he plays in a very short field that also traps runners by causing them to misjudge hits off the Monster. Even if you don't like UZR, there are plenty of statistics that wipe the floor with errors and assists:
Worst Fielders of 2009 - THT
Bay's not on this list (fortunately), but ...
Read: David Wrigh among 10 Worst Fielders
MetsBlog.com —
According to these stats from the Hardball Times, David Wright was among the 10 Worst Fielders in 2009, in terms of range and reliability.
…i don’t know that i’d go that far, but, man, it just wasn’t a good year for wright, all around… not using any fancy stats, just my eyeballs, i feel like wright is more than fine when it comes to fielding the ball… he seems to position himself well, in advance of the pitch, and so he tends to be in good range of any ball hit… he has strong ...
Wednesday's Frosty Mug
Brew Crew Ball —
... notes that Matthews has been worth -$5.3 million in salary over the last three seasons. And while he was a pretty good defender at one point, TotalZone ranked him as the fourth worst defender in all of baseball last season. And he's 35 years old. On the scale of center fielders, Matthews is much closer to Corey Patterson than Mike Cameron. ...
Why Bobby Abreu Still Isn’t Very Good
Another Cubs Blog —
Rally’s bottom 10 in TotalZone:
1. Michael Cuddyer, RF, -26
2. Bobby Abreu, RF, -25
3. Vernon Wells, CF, -19
4. Gary Matthews Jr., CF, -17
5. Alberto Callaspo, 2B, -16
6. Orlando Cabrera, SS, -16
7. Lastings Milledge, LF, -16
8. David Wright, 3B, -15
9. Carlos Lee, LF, -14
10. Miguel Tejada, SS, -14
Rally updated these with park factors (scroll down to the comments) and Abreu was -9. Just to show that TotalZone isn’t the only defensive metric that ...
