Comments on: Year over (1/2)Year UZR Figures

By: Matt S

Matt S — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:55:09 +0000

The Red Sox are a huge surprise defensively this year. While Pedroia and Ellsbury are both young and therefore hard to assess, I would think both would be better than they are this season (Pedroia 3.4 UZR, Ellsbury -5.6). Mike Lowell, usually a good defensive 3B, has been awful this year (-8 UZR compared to 11.1 last year) but with him injured and Youk taking over Lugo is the only real sink hole for them and his days at SS are numbered as well.

All of their options to replace Youk at first are about average fielding 1B and Youk is a plus 3B. If Ellsbury recovers his form and can play at least average CF, Jason Bay and the SS position will be the only defensive issues among their everday players. Should these numbers regress I could see the Sox pitchers really reaping the benefits. Lester in particular suffered from a high BABIP early on and defense was the main cause.

By: Tom B

Tom B — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:57:13 +0000

RedSox -80.3

uhm… wow?

By: Davidceisen

Davidceisen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:20:39 +0000

I think by the end of the season Utley, Victorino, and Rollins will have substantially higher UZRs.

By: don

don — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:08:15 +0000

The Phillies aren’t doing horrible, they’ve gone from among the best to near average. It’s not surprising that Utley is a little slower laterally coming off a hip surgery, and Rollins is a bit of a mess this year in general. Werth didn’t have enough of a track record to know how good or bad he really was. The only one that really surprises me is Victorino.

By: BX

BX — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:29:31 +0000

And here are the numbers to prove what was pretty much known.

The A’s would be much better off right now with Barton in over Giambi at 1B and Cust at DH with Buck playing RF. That should make up a good chunk of that -30 run difference.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:52:00 +0000

its crazy that the phillies are so much worse in UZR. with basically the same defense(except raul, who is posting good UZR), the phillies are doing HORRIBLE.

i can’t put much faith in this stat.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:10:05 +0000

Is it true that UZR still uses Shea’s park factor for games played at Citifield?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:03:36 +0000

Basically the injury of Aki and Bartlett have caused that little disturbance in there UZR.