Position Adjustments Across the Decades

by Sky Kalkman on Jan 27, 2009 3:58 PM EST on Beyond the Box Score

Sean Smith penned a neat article at Fangraphs yesterday, addressing the topic of historical defense-based positional adjustments. He used TotalZone, his own fielding metric based on quasi-play-by-play data from Retrosheet, and compared how players fared at multiple positions within the same...