Posted by mitchrapp on 9/27/2012 8:54:00 PM (view original):
Posted by mattedesa on 9/27/2012 5:14:00 PM (view original):
What? Miggy's D at 3B doesn't put him over the top? :)
Gotta admit, it's not been as bad as the prognosticators thought in the preseason.
- 0.2 so yeah, much better than I would have thought. He had a much worse defensive WAR at 1st base. Base-running is important but steals are overrated (IMO) so hopefully voters won't look at that too much. In any event, no doubt some voters made up their minds back in June.
Defensive WAR at first base is all screwed up. Almost everyone has a negative career WAR at first base, even guys considered great defensive first basemen. Sure, guys occasionally put together great seasons and get +, but it's pretty rare. In fact, I wouldn't put too much quantitative stock on defensive WAR anywhere, but it works best at short, second, and third. If you want to qualitatively say that Trout's defensive WAR suggests he's a better defender than Cabrera that's fine, the chasm is huge. But eyes can tell you that same thing pretty easily. UZR is a much more useful tool for defensive analysis IMO. By miles.