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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Fielder positioning
You could do alot with $1 stopwatch (hangtime) as we know.
Now, this is what you can do with a 50$ camera (positioning):
Wonderful, isn’t it? It would be beneficial to know how a player’s fielding value breaks down between his positioning (of which he may or may not control, and if you see him play the rover position, you are inclined to believe it’s manager-influences), and his legs/arms. Furthermore, there’s simply the question of regression, which is why we’d like to know how much of a hitter’s skill comes from BB, SO, HR and how much from BABIP.
I know we’ll get all this positioning from the FIELDf/x jackhammer, but we should have been getting this from the scorer’s hammer for decades. (Hire more scorers.)