Alcides Escobar and the Case of the Mysterious BABIP
An in-depth look at the batted ball trends of Milwaukee Brewers prospect Alcides Escobar.
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BCB Projections: Narrowing Down Defense
Introduction, CA | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | LF | CF | RF | SP | RP | RP Lev | Defense There was some good discussion in the defensive projections thread yesterday. I just went through the comments and...
BCB Projections: Defense
Introduction, CA | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | LF | CF | RF | SP | RP | RP Lev We're going to project defense a bit more informally. Here are the CHONE defensive projections for each player. Look them...
Mat Gamel and the Defensive Break-Even Point
Yost is gathering input from a number of different sources, including GM Doug Melvin and assistant GM Gord Ash, the club's scouting officials, coaches and young stats gurus, who Yost dubbed, "the...
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Defense: The Brewers and UZR
Fangraphs has added UZR to all of its player pages. It's not a perfect stat, but it is one of the best estimators of total defensive value, and now it's nice and easy to find. For the explanation,...
What To Expect From Mike Cameron
To listen to the announcers last night and read the paper the last few days, you'd think that we left center field and the number two spot empty for the first 25 games, just waiting to get Mike...
Defense, 25 Games In
Many aspects of the 2008 Milwaukee Brewers are different from that of the '07 club, but the one that may end up having the biggest impact on the bottom line is the defensive realignment. Since we...
All About BABIP
There's been a lot of talk about BABIP in the comment threads recently. I went looking for a good overview of the topic online, but came up empty. So here I am, writing one myself. BABIP...
