SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Charlie Blackmon has a particularly keen interest in what the metrics of baseball and advanced statistics say about him as a defender, even if, on occasion, some players remain distrustful of what they say.
The Rockies’ center fielder is persistently seeking ways to improve himself as a player, both physically and in the numbers. And he is leery of some numbers and how they are adjusted between ballparks.
Blackmon’s relationship with Coors Field is rocky — very much in the same way stats struggle to account for playing at altitude. Now 25 years into their history as a club, we are still trying to figure out how to quantify playing at altitude.