Comments on: Highs and Lows of UZR 2007-9: Dye http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/highs-and-lows-of-uzr-2007-9-dye/ Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:03:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Toffer Peak http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/highs-and-lows-of-uzr-2007-9-dye/#comment-107895 Toffer Peak Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:00:51 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=11107#comment-107895 Here's the link: http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/sabermetric_moves_of_the_2010_pre_season/#16 Here’s the link: http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/sabermetric_moves_of_the_2010_pre_season/#16

]]> By: Toffer Peak http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/highs-and-lows-of-uzr-2007-9-dye/#comment-107877 Toffer Peak Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:31:42 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=11107#comment-107877 You would think with so few players wanting to DH that the player's union wouldn't be against getting rid of the DH. You would think with so few players wanting to DH that the player’s union wouldn’t be against getting rid of the DH.

]]> By: Toffer Peak http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/highs-and-lows-of-uzr-2007-9-dye/#comment-107875 Toffer Peak Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:30:41 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=11107#comment-107875 Hmm, sorry. I was replying to Rick B. above but this site's software must have messed up. Any way in response to your question you are almost but right but also have to account for the increased difficulty in being a DH (players perform worse when they are made to DH than when they also get to field). I believe the at the Inside the Book blog Tangotiger recently said that the threshold was around -15 or so. Hmm, sorry. I was replying to Rick B. above but this site’s software must have messed up.

Any way in response to your question you are almost but right but also have to account for the increased difficulty in being a DH (players perform worse when they are made to DH than when they also get to field). I believe the at the Inside the Book blog Tangotiger recently said that the threshold was around -15 or so.

]]> By: don http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/highs-and-lows-of-uzr-2007-9-dye/#comment-107590 don Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:13:51 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=11107#comment-107590 Can I keep it? Can I keep it?

]]> By: neuter_your_dogma http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/highs-and-lows-of-uzr-2007-9-dye/#comment-107584 neuter_your_dogma Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:48:27 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=11107#comment-107584 Will it be appropriate to call the last player in this series a "LUZR?" Will it be appropriate to call the last player in this series a “LUZR?”

]]> By: neuter_your_dogma http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/highs-and-lows-of-uzr-2007-9-dye/#comment-107583 neuter_your_dogma Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:39:19 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=11107#comment-107583 Well, gold gloves are heavy and balls tend to bounce off. You try fielding with one. Well, gold gloves are heavy and balls tend to bounce off. You try fielding with one.

]]> By: walkoffblast http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/highs-and-lows-of-uzr-2007-9-dye/#comment-107563 walkoffblast Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:32:55 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=11107#comment-107563 It really is sad how irrelevant a gold glove is. Of the top 5 guys for the sample they managed 1 gold glove out of 15 chances and that was from the 5th place guy this year. It really is sad how irrelevant a gold glove is. Of the top 5 guys for the sample they managed 1 gold glove out of 15 chances and that was from the 5th place guy this year.

]]> By: Kevin S. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/highs-and-lows-of-uzr-2007-9-dye/#comment-107562 Kevin S. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:10:29 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=11107#comment-107562 Yes, I meant from 2007-9. That's how I came up with -52.5 (-17.5*3). Obviously, the threshold would be lower (since the -17.5 is per 162 games), but if a player's UZR combined with his positional adjustment is lower than what it would have been if he DHed exclusively, shouldn't he become a DH? Yes, I meant from 2007-9. That’s how I came up with -52.5 (-17.5*3). Obviously, the threshold would be lower (since the -17.5 is per 162 games), but if a player’s UZR combined with his positional adjustment is lower than what it would have been if he DHed exclusively, shouldn’t he become a DH?

]]> By: Benne http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/highs-and-lows-of-uzr-2007-9-dye/#comment-107560 Benne Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:55:27 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=11107#comment-107560 And that's why God invented the DH. He just hated seeing pitchers bat and bad defenders flail around helplessly. (This post is meant to be a joke. I hope it doesn't offend anyone who can't take a joke.) And that’s why God invented the DH. He just hated seeing pitchers bat and bad defenders flail around helplessly.

(This post is meant to be a joke. I hope it doesn’t offend anyone who can’t take a joke.)

]]> By: Newcomer http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/highs-and-lows-of-uzr-2007-9-dye/#comment-107559 Newcomer Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:44:32 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/?p=11107#comment-107559 For the record, Dye says he's not willing to DH next year. He'd be open to 1B, but not DH. http://blogs.suntimes.com/whitesox/2009/11/dye_speaks.html Of course, good money could change his mind... For the record, Dye says he’s not willing to DH next year. He’d be open to 1B, but not DH.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/whitesox/2009/11/dye_speaks.html

Of course, good money could change his mind…

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