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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Why are hot or lucky starts on offense explainable, but not on fielding?
This Twins blogger:
But the best defensive player so far: Young. He’s +4 in plus-minus with three runs saved. Those are incredible figures considering how incompetent these metrics have held him to be in the past. He’s -57 over the past three years in plus-minus, -27 runs saved in the same period. And now he’s saving the Twins a run every three games? Really? We’ll see how long this lasts.
His last two sentences are kind of strange. He’s not “saving” but “has saved”. Not to mention, it’s a best estimate. But his last sentence is correct that “we’ll see”.
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Related story: Willie Bloomquist, after 40 plate appearances, is .368./.400/.500 (career .266/.318/.340). He’s currently at +3 runs batting, even though for his career, he averages close to -20 runs per season.
We may as well indict all batting stats, because it doesn’t make sense that such a terrible hitter can be performing so well.
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