Brewer infield: defense and hitting issues

[Brawndo the Thirst Mutilat]

Its because Yost uses hit charts from the current season only. I forgot when this was found out, but earlier in the year a hitter was going aginst his career tendencies and Yost played him as if this years 200 ABs changed everything.

 

If this is true, I'd just like to say that it is utterly crazy. From a statistical analysis standpoint, however, it does square with Yost's approach to lineups. Ride the hot hand, play the pitcher-hitter matchups, etc. Make all your decisions based on the smallest, most meaningless, sample of data that is available to you.

 

Ned Yost should have his statistics taken away from him.

[Brawndo the Thirst Mutilat]

Excessive employment of extreme positioning that also happens to be foolishly based on partial, misleading information would also help explain why, if you look at the plus minus numbers from the link rluz provided, virtually everybody on the team is above average out of zone and below average in zone. Even the guys you'd expect to be the opposite (e.g. Fielder and Hardy). They're never positioned in their correct zone, so they can't make the plays the system thinks they should. Once in a while, the hitter actually does hit a ball at the crazy spot where the fielder is standing, and the system shows that as a play made out of zone (which I suppose it sort of is, but then, that number is supposed to measure range). The more I look at those numbers, the less I'm certain any of our young infielders are actually bad.

 

Except for Braun. He looks terrible both in and out of zone.