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Felipe Alou: Is He Afraid of the Walk?
November 13, 2002 - Srul Itza
Gee, if Alou feels that way about Raines, how about Rickey? He's available.
Oh, you say they already have a left fielder? Well, maybe Rickey could play first base.
DIPS year-to-year correlations, 1972-1992 (August 5, 2003)
Discussion ThreadPosted 4:41 p.m.,
August 5, 2003
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Srul Itza
Has anyone ever done a study on roster "turn-over", as it relates to positions? Is there any difference at all between how likely a team is to have changes in its middle infielders or corner infielders or outfielders, from year to year? And whether this has changed over time.
I know that there have been studies regarding roster turn-over in general, in response to the issue of whether players have changed teams more often in pre-free agency as opposed to post free-agency (general answer, IIRC is not really; the difference is that the player now has some control over the turn over, whereas before the owners had almost all of the control). I was wondering if that was ever broken down by positions in any way.
I do not know that this would have any effect on the findings above; it was triggered, though, by the comments regarding the differences between single rates (which would tend to be more affected by infield, especially middle infield, defense) and 2b/3b rates (which woudl tend to be more affected by outfield play).