Baseball continues to fascinate me. Each year, we learn more about how to properly evaluate what we see with our eyes. Still, we often struggle to understand just how well certain players perform in a given season. And I’ve struggled with something all year in regards to evaluating the Reds players. We’ve come a long way in more accurately depicting a player’s offensive value in regards to run scoring; we still labor to properly evaluate defense.
Defense is hard to evaluate because of all the variables involved. For instance, suppose a ball is hit three steps to the shortstops right a total of fifteen times.