This Defensive Metric Highlights Improvements for Twins in the Field

Sanchez surprized me the most. I don't think that he should be rated that high. Looks like Arraez has found his position, his high SDI is impressive. Of coarse the GG can't be judged on SDI alone but how well he handles his position which includes more things. But in Vlady's case it's his bat.

Going to be awfully hard for anybody to say moving Arraez off first would be a plus move for the Twins.  He has earned the right to be there next Spring.

Correa probably got votes more for his historical defense than actual work for this year.

30 minutes ago, Fire Dan Gladden said:

Going to be awfully hard for anybody to say moving Arraez off first would be a plus move for the Twins.  He has earned the right to be there next Spring.

Correa probably got votes more for his historical defense than actual work for this year.

 

i think the best argument for moving Arraez off 1B is just to give his aching knees more rest. but despite not having great height/reach and limited familiarity with the position he did well.

Correa certainly passed the eye test for me and I wasn't surprised to see him ranking high and getting GG consideration. 

I think it will be interesting to see how SDI rankings will be affected by the elimination of the shift starting next year, or does SDI already take that into account? 

I will admit to being surprised by Arraez's ranking, he looked very below average to me in the 2 dozen or so games I was able to watch. 

2 hours ago, jmlease1 said:

i think the best argument for moving Arraez off 1B is just to give his aching knees more rest

So, DH only? He's too good of a defender for that.

47 minutes ago, DJL44 said:

So, DH only? He's too good of a defender for that.

I wouldn't DH him only, but I look at him as a guy I want to play 140+ games per season as healthy as possible. That might mean he only plays 80 games in the field as opposed to 100+? He certainly is starting to look like he's more than competent at 1B, which doesn't hurt a bit.

I just do not think much of defensive metrics - the eye is still the best.  Interesting to me how Houston got the SS rating after Correa left.  Is Correa overrated?   Polanco so low at 2B after being so low at SS - maybe he just is not a good defender.  

40 minutes ago, mikelink45 said:

I just do not think much of defensive metrics - the eye is still the best.  Interesting to me how Houston got the SS rating after Correa left.  Is Correa overrated?   Polanco so low at 2B after being so low at SS - maybe he just is not a good defender.  

Sadly Polanco is pretty much the type of infielder many would be happy with , good bat, defense meh.

Twins - 19 of 30 teams in earn runs, 19 of 30 in ERA.

MLB average runs allowed 632, Twins 639.

MLB average ERA 3.96, Twins ERA 3.98.

Don't know where you got your info.

Gordon putting up good numbers cements him as the fourth outfield. Can see Kirilloff/Buxton/Kepler still out there in 2023 with Larnach and Celestino joining Wallner as the fulltime Saints outfield and on-call.

Arraez the permanent first abseman? Well, we do have to play him somewhere.

Julien is opening eyes for the scond base job.

This is the third or fourth defensive metric where Polanco rated poorly. He had an awful season in the field.

19 hours ago, mnfireman said:

I think it will be interesting to see how SDI rankings will be affected by the elimination of the shift starting next year, or does SDI already take that into account? 

I will admit to being surprised by Arraez's ranking, he looked very below average to me in the 2 dozen or so games I was able to watch. 

Just curious, how did he look very below average? I remember the bad throw and error at Oakland in 2021 to give away a game, that was at third base though. I think he went through a tough stretch around that same time in 2021 also in left field. What did you see very below average in 2022? 

22 minutes ago, theBOMisthebomb said:

Just curious, how did he look very below average? I remember the bad throw and error at Oakland in 2021 to give away a game, that was at third base though. I think he went through a tough stretch around that same time in 2021 also in left field. What did you see very below average in 2022? 

In the games I was able to watch he looked unsure on which plays to make and which to let go on hits to his right, he didn't leave the base on bad throws on several occasions, leading to errors and extra bases and I saw him have issues with throws in the dirt.

The first two issues can probably be addressed with coaching, but Arraez didn't show very soft hands as a 2B or 3B, so the third issue will probably continue.

The Sanchez ranking surprised me the most and yes, Arraez got robbed of a gold glove which is supposed to be all about fielding but funny, it seems every year some slugger with less than stellar fielding gets the gold glove.  That's a shame.

19 minutes ago, stringer bell said:

The Twins allowed only 48 unearned runs, fifth in MLB. While the Twins were 19th in earned runs allowed, they were 14th in overall runs allowed. The average number of runs allowed is 694, the Twins allowed 684. Presuming official scoring is consistent, the Twins defense saved runs over an average defense.

If you go to Baseball Reference and look up the team you will see an RField of 21 - which means they saved 21 runs above an average defense.