Baseball Musings ran the defensive numbers on the Probabilistic Model of Range* for all centerfielders over the 2007 season, breaking them out by individual and by team. And surprise, surprise- look what he found:
#1: Coco CrispYet another reason why this was a travesty:
#2: Ichiro Suzuki
#3: Felix Pie
#4: Curtis Granderson
...
#20: Torii Hunter
#31: Grady Sizemore
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
* Basically, for each fieldable (non inside the park home runs) ball put in play, six parameters are used to determine how difficult it was to field the ball. A probability of turning the ball into an out is calculated, and those probabilities are summed. That gives us expected batted balls turned into outs. We turn that into a predicted DER (defensive efficiency record), compare that to the actual DER and calculate a ranking- the Probabilistic Model of Range.
on November 12, 2007 11:08 AM
To reiterate - COCO WAS ROBBED! I think this should have been evident just from the number of times Coco's catches were on ESPN's highlight reels compared to the other guys. This whole giving the Gold Glove to the incumbent winner is stupid.
Well, Coco can laugh at the rest of them, because he's got something they don't - a World Series Ring!