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Best Arms and Double Play Turners

First the outfield arms:

 

Name ARM 
Hunter Pence 8.6
Nick Markakis 6.8
Ryan Ludwick 6.3
Pat Burrell 6
Shane Victorino 5.1
Alfonso Soriano 4.7
B.J. Upton 4.6

Now the pivot specialists:

 

Name DPR 
Bobby Crosby 3.1
Akinori Iwamura 2.4
Miguel Tejada 2.2
Daric Barton 1.7
Mark Ellis 1.5
Jose Reyes 1.4

And after the jump, the worst.

 

Name DPR 
Mark Teixeira -1.1
Edgar Renteria -1.1
Kelly Johnson -1.3
Derek Jeter -1.6
Freddy Sanchez -1.8
Brian Roberts -2.9
Placido Polanco -3.1
Yunel Escobar -3.9

 

 

Name ARM
Brian Giles -9.4
Grady Sizemore -5.2
Lastings Milledge -5.1
Corey Hart -4.6
Jason Bay -4.5
Brad Hawpe -4.1
Jermaine Dye -3.9
Adam Dunn -3.7
Chris Young -3
Jeremy Hermida -2.9
Carlos Lee -2.5

All courtesy of FanGraphs

Things I'm all ready thinking about:

- Splits on whether lefties/righties turn DPs better at which positions.

- Arm/DP aging curves.

- Arms by position.