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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Fielding Position Adjustments

By Tangotiger, 01:27 PM

MGL was nice enough to send me his UZR data for 2002-2005, but under heavy penalty of silence.  However, we can still try to do some cool stuff with it.  We have 2163 total records over the 4-yr period, or about 77 players per position per year.  His data is limited to those players with at least 10 games at any one position, 1B to RF. 

How much harder is it to play CF, compared to LF?  Or 2B?  RF compared to 3B?  LF to 1B?  Let’s take a look.

Note that this is a research-in-progress.  I will be updating the main article as I produce more research.  Treat this as a lab notebook.

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