This is a graph of all fly balls fielded by that outfielder, where they were fielded – regardless of whether or not they were successful in recording an out. What we’re looking at/for here is a measure of an outfielder’s positioning, and possibly his range – not his overall quality. You could build a zone rating type of metric out of this sort of data, but that’s not what I’ve done here.

In Edmonds’ case last season, he tended to make most of his plays in one location – presumably the location where he started off at most of the time. Hall had a lot of small blue clusters, which says (to me) that he was shifting his position more frequently than Edmonds. I’ll do what dixieflatline suggested later and break it down by lefty/righty batter and pre/post ASB and see what that does.

mentioned later in the article (poor style!).