Comment on Best of BP 2017: We Need to Talk About Defense by oldbopper

Watching Hanley Ramirez stand in LF, no right thinking person could ever call it playing LF, should do more to tear down some of these shibboleths about defensive metrics than all the cock sure assumptions that many statistically oriented types have about the value of numbers that are claimed to be omniscient. The eyetest must never be abandoned. Put the guy out there and actually see what he does. Trey Mancini wasn’t half-bad after being called an absolutely first base only Prince Fielder clone. Who would the computer have put in LF, the former major league SS, who could move easily to another position, pardon me while I laugh, or the player who wasn’t supposed to be able to play anywhere but 1st base.



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