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Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Defensive Hope For The Tribe

Chronicles of The Lads converts David Pinto's PMR into a run value, which is a rather swell thing. Aaron Boone was rather atrocious defensively (no surprise), but in a limited sample size, Andy Marte was much better:

               Runs Above Average      RAA/350 chances
Marte          4.2                     10.7
Boone         -11.4                   -17
Difference     15.6                    27.7

Boone was by far the worst defensive third baseman in the AL according to this metric, about three runs worse than Aubrey Huff. Over the course of a full season, Marte's rate would be 27.7 runs better than Boone, almost three wins. Let's look at second base:

               Runs Above Average      RAA/460 chances
Barfield       4.2                     4.6
Belliard       -12.4                   -12.3
Difference     16.6                    16.9

Alternative Method

               Runs Above Average      RAA/460 chances
Barfield       .35                     .37
Belliard       -18.4                   -17.9
Difference     18.8                    18.3

Over the course of the season, Barfield offers about 16.5-19 runs in improvement over Belliard (Luna was quite bad also; -6.6 RR/-19 RAA.460). Peralta did well in this metric also; +12.6 RAA, fifth best in the majors.

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