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
J Varitek 66 79 61 51 76 68 56 63 105 0.72
A Cora 64 67 70 65 65 61 54 58 72 0.75
B Mueller 61 72 55 42 69 67 60 60 119 0.71
E Renteria 60 63 68 63 40 65 64 57 123 0.65
J Damon 59 72 82 84 73 33 0 20 128 0.69
T Graffanino 59 63 59 57 59 60 49 60 76 0.82
T Nixon 54 52 51 47 59 56 60 52 108 0.72
J Olerud 54 74 39 21 79 63 43 60 82 0.68
M Bellhorn 51 51 49 45 51 64 45 57 106 0.73
K Youkilis 50 52 46 40 54 49 53 58 81 0.77
D Mirabelli 47 53 30 24 62 55 61 55 76 0.7
M Ramirez 33 17 21 30 24 48 55 66 125 0.61
K Millar 19 18 16 16 20 20 23 20 110 0.72


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.