Archive for the “Sabermetrics” Category

Sorry for the late post today, totally my fault.  I’ll try to keep these at a minimum to keep from turning into the red baron of Future Redbirds.  (hi Baron!) Just wanted to do a quick post on park factors.

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Sean “Chone” Smith has applied his TotalZone defensive metric on minor league data for the past few years, although it didn’t become available until last year at MinorLeagueSplits.com. Recently updated data has become available for games up to July 31st. While every defensive metric have their own quirks (especially metrics that depend on scorekeepers coding of batted balls as “line drives” or “fly balls”), the quirks can only be heightened when not dealing with a full season.

I’d trust the scouting reports first, then go with two or better yet three seasons worth of data before making any hard conclusions on a minor leaguer’s glovework. Or better yet, go watch them yourself for a few games.

But for what it’s worth, let’s check out some of the Cardinals’ top prospects and how their TotalZone numbers look. It’s also important to know these numbers translate a better for infielders than outfielders. Let’s start with the up the middle positions first.

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Keep voting for #19 below.

I’m thinking of putting together a “reading room” page on the top with a listing of sabermetric research regarding prospects or at least somehow prospect related. Please share with us in the comments what you can dig up along those lines. For example, I found a really interesting article by Victor Wang about the value of Top 100 prospects. He also recently had this article regarding the draft over at THT. I’m looking for stuff like the dollar value of draft picks, minor league equivalencies and so on. If it’s prospect related..well..you get the idea.

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