New "Jump" metric for Outfielders

[thewupk]

https://www.mlb.com/news/new-outfiel...aseball-savant

Measures how good of a jump outfielders get.

No surprise that Ender has rated very well here since he's been a top defender with pedestrian sprint speed for a CF. He has really excelled in his reaction time which is down this year and is likely what's dragging his defense numbers down. I suspect his back is the reason for this.

To add to this: I really wish we had this data available when Andruw played.

[nsacpi]

https://www.mlb.com/news/new-outfiel...aseball-savant

Measures how good of a jump outfielders get.

No surprise that Ender has rated very well here since he's been a top defender with pedestrian sprint speed for a CF. He has really excelled in his reaction time which is down this year and is likely what's dragging his defense numbers down. I suspect his back is the reason for this.

To add to this: I really wish we had this data available when Andruw played.

Andruw would break the system because his jump started before the ball met the bat.

[thethe]

Andruw would break the system because his jump started before the ball met the bat.

Helped to have all time pitchers that would put the ball into a spot based on the catchers mitt but of course Druw was second to none.