Comments on: Highs and Lows of UZR 2007-9: Dunn

By: tom s.

tom s. — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:14:58 +0000

if we could break uzr down by month, it wouldn’t help. uzr is not very meaningful over a month. a month’s worth of uzr would more measure the noise in the sample than the month’s defensive performance.

that’s why the series looks at 3 seasons worth of data.

By: Toffer Peak

Toffer Peak — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:39:42 +0000

You forgot to account for his positional adjustment. With that included Raul’s overall fielding value (what this series has been measuring) was -28.2.

By: JCA

JCA — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:12:02 +0000

A special season like Dunn’s deserves more than just a sum of his UZR. Is there a way to break down his UZR by month and position. If my memory is right, much of his negative rating at first base was piled up before the Nick Johnson trade and immediately after it. IIRC, he was running in th -40 UZR/150 at first at midseason, and ended up with -25. Did he actually improve once he settled into one position instead of spot duty at first?

His career UZR/150 at first in a little over a season is 17.9. Granted, that’s based on only a little over one season of play and that season is based on games spread over the early part of his career, when he was closer to average, and later, when he was seeing mostly spot duty and turning in bad seasons. Could it be that his talent at first is better than his “2 win pick up if he were a DH” suggests?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:56:54 +0000

Isn’t this a sign that teams should put more of an emphasis on fitness? He’s easily 300lbs now. If he lost 15-20lbs of that I’m sure it would do wonders for his range. I don’t think getting that big is tolerated in any other professional league.

There is some truth to the unathletic fat baseball player stereotype…

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:48:05 +0000

He was actually Peyton Manning’s backup quarterback in college… Not a lineman

By: The Hit Dog

The Hit Dog — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:58 +0000

I can’t be the only one who wants to see Adam Dunn play SS… just once…

By: don

don — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:46:49 +0000

It blows my mind that a guy who was a good enough QB to play at UT can have a below average arm in the outfield.

By: CMC_Stags

CMC_Stags — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:43:50 +0000

So by that logic, if Dunn played SS for the whole year, it wouldn’t be possible for him to end up with 40 runs of negative value?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:53:26 +0000

Didn’t I read somewhere he played shortstop in college and maybe started there in the minors? He wasn’t great, but the mere fact that he could play it at all says he was a pretty solid fielder. Ah well… Fat dudes age fast.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:17:00 +0000

“BTW, did anyone else notice that Dunn hasn’t always been an epically bad fielder? His 2002-2004 UZR’s: +6.2, -3.5, -2.4. Not great, but not bad either. Plus he stloe 19 bases in 2002. It seems he used to be kind of fast, but he has slowed significantly with age.”

It hasn’t been age as Dunn is only in his early 30′s, it has been the fact that he hasn’t taken care of himself, conditioning wise, in recent years.