VirginiaBrave
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El Oso Dropo...
7/5 GDT: Houston Astros (57-27) vs. Atlanta Braves (40-42); Dansby's Day Off Edition
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msstate7
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I love camargo, but dansby makes both of those plays
ETA... gotta remember camargo made the plays a little closer bc he knows he has a cannon. He waited to throw
I don't think so. The stats for infielders aren't as good as the ones for OFers specifically for reasons like that.
At the very least I expect statcast to calculate how long it took the defender to get the ball to 1B, broken down by route to the grounder, transfer time and throw velocity.
The speed of the runner would factor into what an "average" time is for each type of batted ball. Maybe? This is probably why we saw them rate OF plays first.
sturg33
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Yeah... I don't see why they can't do it (easy for me to say)... but seems like they should if they want to stay consistent with whether the average fielder makes the play, etc.
Infield metrics will be more harder.
For example, a SS diving to stop a ball from going through doesn't prevent a hit, but it does prevent the runner from 2nd from scoring. So you have to give him cursor for it, but if you want to keep the metric context neutral you have to give him credit for every ball he dives and stops, even if it doesn't prevent a base runner from advancing.
So then you end up with guys diving to stop everything to increase their metric but not doing any real good.
The throw to 1B makes it an order of magnitude more difficult to create a metric.
Should be trivial to judge range, transfer time, and throw velo tho. That will at least allow you to compare a SS to another SS, but not the value of that SS defense to the defense of an OFer.
For example, a SS diving to stop a ball from going through doesn't prevent a hit, but it does prevent the runner from 2nd from scoring. So you have to give him cursor for it, but if you want to keep the metric context neutral you have to give him credit for every ball he dives and stops, even if it doesn't prevent a base runner from advancing.
So then you end up with guys diving to stop everything to increase their metric but not doing any real good.
The throw to 1B makes it an order of magnitude more difficult to create a metric.
Should be trivial to judge range, transfer time, and throw velo tho. That will at least allow you to compare a SS to another SS, but not the value of that SS defense to the defense of an OFer.
Freeman moved to 3b so the offense would remain amazeballs. This isn't how it was supposed to happen when folks drooled at the lineup with 3 first baseman in it.
Ozzie Swanson
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Stop hanging your fugging slider Garcia.
Doing his job until giving up three two out runs in the fifth. Seems to be a pattern with this guy.
msstate7
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4 runs thru 5 vs the astros is pretty respectable to me for our starting staff. 0 runs vs a guy just called up from AAA isn't respectable at all
Ozzie Swanson
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Snitker is an idiot.