The Numbers Tell The Story

by R.J. Anderson on Jun 19, 2008 12:01 PM EDT

Defensively...

Last	Pos	Inn	RZR	OOZ
Gross	RF	288	0.915	10
AVG	RF	527	0.9	25
Upton	CF	600	0.91	44
AVG	CF	531	0.911	32
Crawford	LF	561	0.88	32
AVG	LF	517	0.87	21
Hinske	RF	177	0.878	5
AVG	RF	527	0.9	25
Bartlett	SS	597	0.823	27
AVG	SS	566	0.833	23
Iwamura	2B	616	0.796	18
AVG	2B	548	0.824	15
Pena	1B	468	0.732	18
AVG	1B	550	0.755	19
Longoria	3B	542	0.694	28
AVG	3B	532	0.7	22

The Rays are right at or right above average at every position they qualify a player at, combining for a team defensive efficiency rating (think (1 - team BABIP) of .717 with league average being .702. I know we keep touching on this, but until last season I'm not sure how much we appreciated good defense. So thank you Brendan Harris, Josh Wilson, and Jorge Cantu, thank you.

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not to be dense,

but you think you could break down RZR and OOZ real quick?

i know OOZ is out of zone, but i’m not all the sure what quantifies a play out of the zone…

by davidsmarch on Jun 19, 2008 12:08 PM EDT reply actions

This does a better job than I can.

by R.J. Anderson on Jun 19, 2008 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/statpages/glossary/

by dbulls21 on Jun 19, 2008 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions

maybe i'm not understanding this,

but i seem to be reading that most of our players are below average? how is that possible? am i reading this wrong. Use aki as an example please.

by davidsmarch on Jun 19, 2008 12:27 PM EDT reply actions

Aki doesn't have the best of range

So that one’s understandable. He does however get to a ton of what you’d deem “outside of zone” plays, which seems contradictory, but consider that he might be strong to his left and weak to his right.

by R.J. Anderson on Jun 19, 2008 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions

i'm reading he's .30 points worse then the average 2b,

i just can’t believe that’s accurate from what i’ve seen this year. this is supposed to be outs made on balls hit to his zone, right? that just can’t be right.

by davidsmarch on Jun 19, 2008 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions

I'd have to ask the experts about it.

by R.J. Anderson on Jun 19, 2008 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions

It says Aki is 133/167 for balls in his zone…that can’t be right.

9 = 8

by websterjtc on Jun 19, 2008 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions

agreed,

i’ve seen every game, and 0 errors, plus me not being able to think or maybe a handful of balls that could have been outs that he didn’t get too make that impossible.

by davidsmarch on Jun 19, 2008 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions

We don't know the range though

He’s missed quite a few balls, I don’t know if it’s 34, but it’s not like this is guess work.

by R.J. Anderson on Jun 19, 2008 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions

no arguing he's missed some balls,

and obviously we don’t know the range. but from what i read, this is outs in the range that would be made 50% of the time? or something like that. there just aren’t 34 balls hit in his range that he missed that the league avg 2b would have gotten to 50% of the time.

by davidsmarch on Jun 19, 2008 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions