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By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:27:35 +0000

Re: #3 (Cubbies), yes, I just copied and pasted from the two yearly team fielding pages. I could have used the SHARE function on each table, but I was in a hurry. If I had used SHARE, the table would definitely look nicer. As far as LF, I agree that Pierre was really good for them in '09. However, Manny has missed games this year as well, and he was just as bad last year as he's been this year... The big difference is in Manny's replacements -- like you said, Pierre was a good defender (+3 by +/-, +4 by TotalZone) in Manny's stead last year, but this year his understudies have been Reed Johnson, Xavier Paul, and Garret Anderson, who have been somewhere between average (+0 by +/-) and really bad (-6 TotalZone). So that's another factor you can point to for why the Dodgers are so much worse defensively this year than in '09.

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By: kctor

kctor — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:51:23 +0000

Another factor could be LF. With Ramirez suspended 50 games last year. They got to have pierre out there. Now that hurt offensively, but Manny is scary (in a bad way) out there in LF.

By: cubbies

cubbies — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:22:23 +0000

how did u make that chart comparing the 2 seasons? simply by a bunch of copy/pastes?

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:19:43 +0000

And yet, despite its flaws, it's still more useful that fielding percentage and "watching with your eyes".

By: Johnny Twisto

Johnny Twisto — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:57:05 +0000

Total Zone currently shows the major leagues as a whole are 8 runs below average (AL is +45, compared to the -53 for the NL shown above). Maybe that's just a bunch of rounding errors adding up, but it doesn't look right. By definition, the total HAS to be 0. That discrepancy won't help convert the many people who have no faith in modern defensive stats.