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Tag: Defensive Runs Saved
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Crown The Royals Pitchers No. 1 in Defensive Runs Saved
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Photo: William Purnell/Icon Sportswire In his second season as Royals pitching coach, Brian Sweeney had a new item for his priority list. He wanted his pitchers to be standouts defensively but he didn’t want to put them through the same basic drills they’d gone through in years past. “They’ve covered first a million times, they’ve…
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Stat of the Week: A Strong Brew In Milwaukee
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Milwaukee is a team that has defenders you don’t want to hit the ball to.
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Stat of the Week: Defenses Can’t Stop Bobby Witt Jr.
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The Royals shortstop’s numbers are in part due to the pressure he puts on defenses to make plays quickly
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Stat of the Week: Mariners Top The AL West, Are Tops In Positioning
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Seattle is doing very well at putting its fielders in spots where balls are most often hit.
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Q&A: The Origin of Defensive Runs Saved w/ John Dewan
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With 20 available seasons of defensive data, we look back to where it all began.
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An update to the last few years of Defensive Runs Saved
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We’ve made a change that makes our statistics more accurate.
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A Closer Look at Defensive Aging Curves
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When do players peak defensively? And how does age impact their skills?
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Evaluating Infielder Throwing with the DRS PART System
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Baseball Info Solutions recently introduced a major update to Defensive Runs Saved that will be rolling out this offseason. We’re splitting DRS for infielders into Positioning, Air, Range, and Throwing components. In that introductory blog post, we mostly covered how this will affect the Positioning and Range components (which were previously reported together as one…
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Infield Defense in PARTs: A Major Update to Defensive Runs Saved Coming Soon
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A major update to Defensive Runs Saved will provide a better understanding of infield defense.
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What makes the Astros defense great?
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The Astros don’t have a defensive superstar. But they have many very good defenders as you’ve seen this postseason.