Originally Posted by
thewupk
First I don't believe I said it's not great. But it's certainly not perfect or close to it like offensive evaluation is.
In simple terms of 'bad' then yes given other things are equal a bad hitter will impact a team more than a bad fielder. They simply have more opportunities to be bad than a fielder does. The problem with that line of thinking is there are many varying degrees of 'bad' and all other adjectives we can assign players.
I would rather look at players on how many runs they produce while they are playing. Because runs is a number and math is fun.