Fan Scouting Report

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Sabermetrics guys are numbers-humping assholes!"
"They'd rather play with their sliderules, abaci and other obsolete counting equipment than watch a baseball game!
Screw UZR-- I KNOW GOOD DEFENSE WHEN I SEE IT!"

Okay, then say something. This year's Tangotiger fan survey/scouting report is here. Weigh in on individual Met players' defense and make some data points, jerky.

[metirish]

Fucks sake, not for nothing but I scored Reyes a 5 on all .

Wright not a one.

[metirish]

No one else did this?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I've done it in the past but not this year.

The thing is that it's hard to distinguish ability from consistency. There's nothing a shortstop can do that Jose Reyes hasn't done and done well. But thre's little a shortstop can do that he's mastered. And so he's not a superior shortstop, but an average-to-good one. But I'm not sure how to reflect that in the ratings.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I did. Blanco, Reyes and Pagan got the best marks, with Ike, Wright, Francoeur, Barajas, Bay and Tejada scoring decently, too.

As much as I'm generally for deliberation, I find that this works best as sort of a read-and-react exercise-- a defense-focused "blink" drill, if you will.

[metirish]

I had Reyes and Pagan tops in my list. Scoring Beltran made me realize how far in my mind he has fallen, his physical gifts are not there right now.