THE BOOK – Playing The Percentages In Baseball

By Tango, Lichtman, Dolphin

 

2005 The Scouting Report, By the Fans, For the Fans

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Player Overall
Position-Neutral
Instincts FirstStep Speed Hands Release Strength Accuracy Ballots Agreement
Level
A Jones 84 95 88 73 86 86 77 76 29 0.78
J Francoeur 81 78 83 76 70 88 91 84 19 0.78
R Furcal 79 79 91 93 53 72 95 59 28 0.8
R Langerhans 69 75 74 68 62 71 62 65 16 0.75
M Giles 65 64 70 68 65 64 51 65 23 0.74
A Marte 64 66 66 61 46 77 68 77 5 0.7
W Betemit 61 52 67 65 58 60 65 59 11 0.73
B McCann 56 55 48 52 63 58 61 68 11 0.68
K Johnson 52 51 53 59 51 50 44 61 16 0.71
A LaRoche 50 55 38 21 66 65 58 60 17 0.54
P Orr 46 31 74 66 24 34 36 44 6 0.75
C Jones 46 45 44 39 42 57 47 58 19 0.65
J Franco 44 43 39 34 58 47 47 39 10 0.48
B Jordan 40 47 41 38 40 45 21 43 7 0.33
J Estrada 33 36 24 17 38 43 38 50 19 0.59
R Mondesi 22 10 13 21 20 27 56 29 6 0.45


Final: Mar 24, 2006

The league average for each of the seven traits of fielding is fixed at 50, with one standard deviation equal to 20 points. This means that a player with a trait value of 70 is in the top 16% in the league.

A player's name in gray means the player received less than 3 votes. A player's name in red received less than 6 votes.

The higher the agreement level, the more that the fans agreed with each other in the balloting. The league average is .71. The league low is around .40.