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2011 Beyond the Box Score Catcher Defense Ratings: Year-End Edition
Once again, I failed to keep up with monthly updates to my catcher defense rankings, although I did get a couple of installments done during the season. The Gold Glove awards are coming out later tonight, so let's see if they get it "right." (ahem) I often go through a number of qualifications at...
Beyond the Box Score 2011 Catcher Defense Ratings: July Edition
So I guess my plan to do monthly updates of the Catcher Defense Ratings is becoming something closer to bimonthly (a tribute to Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con, uh, yeah). As always, take these with a grain of salt. I do think they do reflect something objective, way of "analyzing" events into defensive...
Beyond the Box Score 2011 Catcher Defense Ratings: May Edition
And now... the moment you've all been waiting for... the first installment of the Beyond the Box Score Catcher defense ratings of the 2011 season! What, you haven't been waiting for them? What, you aren't interested a catcher defense metric that doesn't give extra credit for a guy hitting like a...
2010 Beyond the Box Score Catcher Defense Rankings
Remember me? No? Yeah... about that... I did mean to post every month during the season... but I was busy, baby, you know I love you, right? Look, here's the full, year-end rankings, just for you and me. Forgive me now? I won't go over the methodology stuff that you can find in earlier posts (so...
BtB 2010 Catcher Defense Rankings: June 29
[Update, June 30, 2010, 1:03 A.M. EST: Thanks to Justin and Mike in the comments, I realized that I had a problem in my spreadsheet, in short -- the league averages weren't updating properly. I've basically fixed it now. The difference was usually only a few tenths of a run per player, so there...
2010 Catcher Defense Rankings as of May 25, 2010
I am on the masthead, so I might as well contribute something, right? After the 2009 season, I published catcher defense rankings at Driveline Mechanics. It was a a modified version simple methodology that Justin Inaz and others had used before. Since then, others like Mike Rogers of Bless You Boys...
An Attempt to Capture Catcher Defense
A couple of weeks ago I put something together over at VEB about catcher defense in the NL at the All-Star break and was invited to extend my analysis to all major league catchers over here. As we all know, the impact of catcher defense is very difficult to quantify. Even Fangraphs has a...
Catching Prospects: Pop-guns and Bazookas
Last week* I covered the top position player prospects and their defense, but I wasn't really sure what to do with catchers. Quantifying catcher defense is still rather nebulous, as there's a lot of factors that are tricky to weigh. There are a couple of things that we know catchers are (mostly)...
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