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Gold Gloves Changing?

Ben Horrow Mar 12 2013, 12:00p

Could the involvement of SABR in the Rawlings Gold Glove Awards make them more relevant, or is it too little too late?

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ESPN's Jerry Crasnick on defensive metrics

posted by SFiercex4, Nov 18, 2009

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Crasnick is surprisingly one of the more progressive baseball people on ESPN, as he regularly cites FanGraphs and defensive metrics in general when doing his list articles. I liked his take, I think it is what most of us believe. We need scouting and metric data to estimate defense, and in the future we may have quantifiable answers to things like "What's the difference between line drives and fly balls?" How much we weigh each data set is what is currently in contention, I suppose.

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UZR's (and Most Other Defensive Metrics) Limitation in Year to Year Analysis

Jeff Zimmerman Aug 15 2009, 5:07p

Limitation of Using UZR in Year to Year Analysis

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