World Series 2009: DiamondView Composite Comps - Infield

by Justin Bopp on Oct 28, 2009 11:54 PM EDT in Visuals Above Replacement

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Full charts after the jump.

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Mark Teixeira's DVC looks an awful lot like Albert Pujols', doesn't it?

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Chase Utley really did have a remarkable year, but he's ruining the way the DVC is supposed to function as a general 'positional shape.' Robinson Cano, against nearly every other 2B, dominates--but not this one.

I had to check twice to make certain Jimmy Rollins' OBP score wasn't wrong. It really is that bad. He's at .296.

I usually avoid name abbreviations, but Alex Rodriguez's name just didn't fit. The weird part about this one is that I could've sworn I added Philly's 3B, Feliz, but it somehow didn't make it through compression.

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Still love these charts

Wish you did these more. Like all the time, Justin.

I love how Feliz is a sliver while Utley is an immense blob (graph-wise). It’s just awesome to see how dominant he is everywhere.

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by SFiercex4 on Oct 29, 2009 12:06 AM EDT reply actions

Does Feliz's base running even exist?

I'm still hoping to wake up from that nightmare I had about the 9th inning of Game 4.

by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Oct 29, 2009 12:49 AM EDT reply actions

Who is this Feliz everbody keeps commenting on?

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by Justin Bopp on Oct 29, 2009 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions

Wait. Did Howard really out-glove Tex this year?

I know plus/minus at least has liked Howard in the past, and I know that one season is a small sample for fielders, but still.

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by philkid3 on Oct 29, 2009 3:40 AM EDT reply actions

That was what I was thinking too.

I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
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by EnglishMariner on Oct 29, 2009 8:43 AM EDT up reply actions

Yes he did, but not by much.

And as we all mentioned, sample size sample size sample size.

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by SFiercex4 on Oct 29, 2009 8:48 AM EDT up reply actions

Correct.

It might be worth looking at doing these for a career, rather than a single season. Better, it might be worth looking at these per season, compiling them, and then morphing them into an animated shape change. I bet we could watch fielding and baserunning go down over time.

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by Justin Bopp on Oct 29, 2009 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions

Don't say those things, or you might have to actually do them.

Get on it Justin! I’m too excited about it now.

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by SFiercex4 on Oct 29, 2009 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions

+1

by lookatthosetwins on Oct 29, 2009 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions

I would also like to mention that there is quite a bit of uncertainty in terms of whether he actually did outglove Teixeira

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by SFiercex4 on Oct 29, 2009 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions

Fielding

How was fielding calculated in these charts?

by cnubsbl16 on Oct 29, 2009 9:42 AM EDT reply actions

UZR

by vivaelpujols on Oct 30, 2009 2:52 AM EDT up reply actions

Those charts are pretty dark

… which makes them hard to read. Use a light or white background.

I like how we can do all this analysis, see which team is better on paper, then watch the games turn out differently. Last night we saw the A-Rod of old.

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by JonPeltier on Oct 29, 2009 1:34 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah. I need to lighten the BG. But!

I think most people acknowledge the value of sabermetrics is measuring success over time and analyzing the data as a predictor of future sucess. One game is definition of “small sample size.”

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by Justin Bopp on Oct 29, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions

I think the BG looks good

Can’t really understand how you can’t see it clearly.

by lookatthosetwins on Oct 29, 2009 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions

lol @ utley owning cano.

by nmigliore on Oct 29, 2009 4:30 PM EDT reply actions

these are awesome graphs!!

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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Oct 29, 2009 5:35 PM EDT reply actions

Utley is a beast.

And proved it last night.

Love the charts. I don’t see the problem with the dark gray background.

by Wilder. on Oct 29, 2009 6:13 PM EDT reply actions

Wow Utley is incredible

Yet, I feel that many Phillies fans don’t appreciate him. They always talk about Howard and Rollins, yet Utley is far and away the best player on that team (well, actually, Cliff Lee’s really good too. Utley is easily the best position player on that team).

by boom_roasted on Oct 29, 2009 10:57 PM EDT reply actions

He's the second best player in major league baseball.

He should probably already have one MVP award. The fact that it actually went to his (comically worse) teammate is a level of irony that seemingly only the BBWAA could be capable of.

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by PaulThomas on Oct 30, 2009 2:31 AM EDT up reply actions