Stories tagged with "defense"

Alcides Escobar and the Case of the Mysterious BABIP

by Jordan M on Feb 18, 2009 1:00 PM CST

Last season, Alcides Escobar put up an impressive line of .322/.367/.440 at AA Huntsville-- a .373 wOBA compared to an average of .343 in the league. The primary source of his high ranking in many pro...

BCB Projections: Narrowing Down Defense

by Jordan M on Feb 4, 2009 3:44 PM CST

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 tri...

BCB Projections: Defense

by Jordan M on Feb 3, 2009 3:15 PM CST

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 over, ...

Mat Gamel and the Defensive Break-Even Point

by Jordan M on Jan 24, 2009 3:48 PM CST

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 wh...

What To Expect From Mike Cameron

by Jeff Sackmann on Apr 30, 2008 12:30 PM CDT

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 Camero...

Defense, 25 Games In

by Jeff Sackmann on Apr 28, 2008 1:38 PM CDT

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 w...

All About BABIP

by Jeff Sackmann on Apr 22, 2008 6:00 PM CDT

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 ...