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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Teixeira, take 2
I don’t think Sean is accounting for the measurement error, which I talked about in the 2008 THT Annual. We simply don’t have enough parameters being tracked to distinguish between a play that should be marked as .94 outs, but is actually interpreted as .97 or .90, depending what parameters are being included. Obviously, sample size is our friend. But, a few hundred plays is not our friend.
If we go by observers, it’s no contest: Teix is one of the best fielding 1B, and Ryan Howard is average.