Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Charting a player’s UZR can be useful…

February 24, 2010 by iYankees · 9 Comments 

Derek Jeter’s UZR at shortstop last season was 6.6 runs above average. Nick Swisher’s UZR in right field last season was -0.7 runs below average. Johnny Damon’s UZR in left field last season was -9.2 runs below average. From my own experiences, many baseball fans often toss around FanGraphs’ Ultimate Zone Ratings without much context [...]