Third Base Fielding - Longoria Is Good

The Price is Only Right For Us Third Base Fielding - Longoria Is Good The following shenanigans not only demonstrate evidence of Longoria's awesomeness in the field, they're a good way to demonstrate that advanced fielding metrics don't bite. I'm using both zone rating data from the Hardball Times and and ESPN, because their data come from different companies (BIS and STATS, respectively). I'm going to compute runs saved compared to average for both data sets and then average them together. A zone rating is simply the percentage of balls hit into a player's zone of responsibility that he turns into outs. "Zone of responsibility" is pretty arbitrary, and is determined by combining all the little zone on the field that have their balls turned into outs at least 50% of the time (across all players). BIS also reports out-of-zone... [read full story]