Comments on: I Look At Fielding Statistics In My Spare Time http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2009/08/02/i-look-at-fielding-statistics-in-my-spare-time/ infrequent blogging from some dude Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Joseph Jones http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2009/08/02/i-look-at-fielding-statistics-in-my-spare-time/comment-page-1/#comment-25985 Joseph Jones Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:21:00 +0000 http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=1856#comment-25985 +18 for Andruw Jones on BR, never looked at Fangraphs FYI +18 for Andruw Jones on BR, never looked at Fangraphs FYI

]]> By: Joseph Jones http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2009/08/02/i-look-at-fielding-statistics-in-my-spare-time/comment-page-1/#comment-25984 Joseph Jones Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:20:00 +0000 http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=1856#comment-25984 Can't escape the fact Jeter is terrible going to his left. Not just bad. Terrible. He never had tremendous range to begin with and as he has aged it hasn't gotten any better. And you really cannot escape the fact that defensive metrics place far more weight on range than any previous attempt to quantify defense had done. So this isn't surprising in the least bit. He is very reliable with what he gets to, his baseball intellect allows him to make sure he is in a good spot but you damn sure shouldn't expect him to cover large swaths of the field. All his offensive abilities, "intangibles" & all around hustle have indeed allowed him to not only survive in the league but to flourish. Can’t escape the fact Jeter is terrible going to his left. Not just bad. Terrible. He never had tremendous range to begin with and as he has aged it hasn’t gotten any better.

And you really cannot escape the fact that defensive metrics place far more weight on range than any previous attempt to quantify defense had done.

So this isn’t surprising in the least bit.

He is very reliable with what he gets to, his baseball intellect allows him to make sure he is in a good spot but you damn sure shouldn’t expect him to cover large swaths of the field.

All his offensive abilities, “intangibles” & all around hustle have indeed allowed him to not only survive in the league but to flourish.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2009/08/02/i-look-at-fielding-statistics-in-my-spare-time/comment-page-1/#comment-7629 Anonymous Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:09:07 +0000 http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=1856#comment-7629 very insightful - thanks very insightful – thanks

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