Although I touched on a few defensive stats last week, FanGraphs has a great primer on a variety of metrics used to measure fielding that can help both the novice and experienced observer alike. As I mentioned last week, Defensive Runs Saved (DRS) and Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR) are not great tools to measure defense for a single season (they require larger samples to normalize), but they are referenced often and are certainly better than standard stats like fielding percentage or errors. Thus, I will not refrain from using them to examine player performance (for which they are better than team defense) in this article.
Astros 2018 Positional Defense—Infielders
