Albert Almora Jr. is known as a defense-first type of player whose excellent glove is supposed to gloss over some of his flaws at the plate. Even a Gold Glove wouldn’t have glittered enough to blind people to Almora’s 64 wRC+, and the SABR Defensive Index tells us his reputation served as little more than thinly and hastily applied gilding in 2019
Among positional qualifiers, Almora ranks second-worst in center field defensive value, ahead of only the Rockies’ Ian Desmond.
Almora’s poor SABR DI numbers match other defensive metrics including his -4.1 UZR/150 and -5 DRS, both of which were far below average.