Most Balls Scooped at First Base (2009)

Albert Pujols, STL (55)
Paul Konerko, CHW (51)
James Loney, LAD (47)
Kendry Morales, LAA (47)
Todd Helton, COL (47)

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Where's the data from?

This is pretty awesome.

by Lucas Apostoleris on Apr 11, 2010 11:40 PM EDT reply actions

FanGraphs

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by philkid3 on Apr 12, 2010 12:57 AM EDT up reply actions

Wouldn't scoops per put out be more appropriate?

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by Jeff Zimmerman on Apr 12, 2010 12:58 AM EDT reply actions

Absolutely.

There’s no context whatsoever on these. It’s like the RBIs of defense.

But it’s still interesting, as RBIs would be if they weren’t used every day as some sort of way to evaluate hitters well.

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by philkid3 on Apr 12, 2010 2:53 AM EDT up reply actions

That list, btw:

Paul Konerko .044
Joey Votto .041
Lance Berkman .039
Albert Pujols .037
Kendry Morales .037
Derrek Lee .037

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by philkid3 on Apr 12, 2010 2:59 AM EDT up reply actions

Loney, mentioned in the post, also .037.

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by David Young on Apr 19, 2010 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Rally did a study on 1B scooping ability in a WOWY style — 1Bs who prevented throwing errors the most. He found a lot of the better “scoopers” were tall first basemen. One explanation is that these guys aren’t actually any better at scooping, but provide a bigger target, allowing infielders to aim higher, keeping the ball out of the dirt.

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by Sky Kalkman on Apr 12, 2010 12:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Makes sense.

I remember being a little kid and being told “first basemen should be tall so they can get to more throws.”

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by philkid3 on Apr 12, 2010 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions

WOWY?

My mental saber-dictionary doesn’t have a definition handy for that one.

by jwiscarson on Apr 13, 2010 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions

With Or Without You

How many throwing errors are there WITH a first baseman compared to WITHOUT (adjusting for chances, obviously). Then you can get more complex by adjusting based a particular fielder’s WOWY scores, etc.

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by Sky Kalkman on Apr 13, 2010 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions