Chronicles of the Lads

PMR, FIRST BASEMEN
Pinto.

Me:

Player            Runs Above Average          
                 Total   Per 275 Opp         
Albert Pujols   30.7808    31.6521
Lyle Overbay    12.9045    12.2021
Kendry Morales  10.7497    26.7455
Nick Johnson    10.5662     9.5032
Dan Johnson     10.3587    18.9884
Lance Niekro    10.3188    33.3568
Kevin Youkilis   9.2893    11.5403
Adrian Gonzalez  8.3955     7.8136
Chris Shelton    7.4857    12.1364
Ben Broussard    6.3764    12.5242
Scott Hatteberg  5.6342     7.2763
Mark Sweeney     5.3310    15.8797
John Mabry       4.7165    14.7239
D. Mientkiewicz  4.7005     8.4426
Andy Phillips    4.6766    12.4690
Justin Morneau   4.6207     4.8833
Mark Teixeira    3.8865     3.5027
Derrek Lee       3.8865    13.3382
S. Hillenbrand   3.6391     7.3348
N. Garciaparra   3.3039     4.7855
Lance Berkman    2.9927     4.2368
Jeff Conine      1.7717     5.4878
Howie Kendrick   1.6200     6.2775
Nick Swisher     1.3407     2.4366
Travis Lee       1.1013     1.3981
Rich Aurilia     0.9417     3.7630
Ryan Shealy      0.8459     2.9101
Prince Fielder  -0.1836    -0.1875
Mike Lamb       -0.2634    -0.7365
Kevin Millar    -0.7182    -1.2430
Ryan Garko      -2.4660    -8.5743
Wes Helms       -2.7613    -9.2086
Ty Wigginton    -3.1204   -12.2744
Craig Wilson    -3.7030   -10.4292
Adam LaRoche    -3.9424    -4.0614
Robb Quinlan    -4.0940   -15.6086
Paul Konerko    -4.1339    -5.1631
Richie Sexson   -5.0437    -4.6650
Carlos Delgado  -5.1394    -5.4477
Todd Helton     -7.6453    -7.5201
Jason Giambi   -13.8861   -43.1976
Mike Jacobs    -16.9506   -21.9629
Sean Casey     -19.0096   -27.2528
Conor Jackson  -19.1133   -20.6164
Ryan Howard    -21.6750   -19.7268

Okay, so last year, David broke down infielders by groundballs only and by all balls in play. This is by all balls in play, and I am forced to guess that Albert Pujols was a "ball hog" on popups, because there is absolutely no way this guy saved 31 runs by his fielding. That's insane.

Here are the comparisons to ZR:

Player          PMR-R    ZR-R    Diff
Adam LaRoche      -4       2       6
Adrian Gonzalez    8       5       3
Albert Pujols     31       0      31
Andy Phillips      5       3       2
Ben Broussard      6      -2       8
Carlos Delgado    -5       3       8
Chris Shelton      7      12       5
Conor Jackson    -19       0      19
Dan Johnson       10       1       9
Doug Mientkiewicz  5       7       2
Jason Giambi     -14      -8       6
Justin Morneau     5       4       1
Kevin Youkilis     9      -1      10
Kevin Millar      -1      -3       2
Lance Berkman      3      -4       7
Lyle Overbay      13       0      13
Mark Teixeira      4       2       2
Mike Jacobs      -17      -1      16
Nick Johnson      11      -1      12
Nick Swisher       1      -2       3
Nomar Garciaparra  3       3       0
Paul Konerko      -4      -8       4
Prince Fielder     0      -9       9
Richie Sexson     -5      -6       1
Ryan Howard      -22      -3      19
Scott Hatteberg    6       9       3
Todd Helton       -8      -2       6
Travis Lee         1       3       2

Zone rating doesn't account for popups, so we should expect some disagreement here; the correlation is .335, closer to what we found for center field than for left field.

I would like to see the groundball-only figures for a better comparison.

Labels: David Pinto, fielding, probabilistic model of range