Speed And Defense!

No? Just speed?

Okay.

about 1 year ago groug 8 comments 0 recs |

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Just as an explanation

This is a measure of defensive efficiency by Baseball Prospectus, which is the rate at which balls put into play are converted into outs by a team’s defense.

The Giants are in last.

The end.

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by groug on Apr 20, 2008 10:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It should be noted though

That some of this might be driven by a flukily high BABIP against Giants pitchers.

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by groug on Apr 20, 2008 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It makes more sense that

The BABIP against Giants pitchers is flukily high because The Giants are the worst team in the league in converting outs.

..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.

by Cookyman on Apr 23, 2008 3:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Arizona’s defense doesn’t seem like it’s all that good though. Maybe their pitching is not as good as it looks?

you can't block the Bocock

by oldjacket on Apr 20, 2008 11:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Arizona’s outfield defense seems terrific to me. Burns, Young, and Upton can all go gettem pretty well.

by tyrannoman on Apr 22, 2008 9:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Where does the N in SFN come from? Did they just grab a random letter from “Francisco” to get the third letter?

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by Natto on Apr 22, 2008 10:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Kind of a guess

I think it means “National.” If you look at San Diego, they have the same thing.

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by groug on Apr 22, 2008 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Some how this only mildly surprises me.

We have a third baseman that was waiver bait and had all of 55 games( 21 this year) there . A second base man who was passable at best and now is something else. His relief is a guy without a defensive home. And we are seeing a lot of Lewis time. Though in the Lewis’s case his defense ( from what little I’ve seen) does not seem a little less shoddy recently. Still that’s 38% of the fielders on the diamond. Imagine once Molina get good and tired in a bout a month and a half.

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by daveinexile on Apr 23, 2008 5:30 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs