As a Bravos fan, I saw Escobar play almost nightly.  His occasional mental lapses have essentially dissappeared, and were never really evident in his defense.  He covers a ton of ground, and has an exceptionally strong/accurate arm to allow him an extra plant step before releasing.  A long (80+ games?) error-free streak didn’t hurt either.

If this season is any indicator of things to come, I’d like to think that he’ll be appearing on similar lists for years to come (hopefully in a Braves uni).

Thanks for validating what many NL East fans saw this season.

Wow! Pedro Feliz. I did not expect that. I’ve seen a fair amount of Giant games over the years, but less Phillies games recently, so maybe he has improved his defense.

re: pedro feliz. my memory of him with the giants is that, yes, he was supposed to be a really solid fielder. and i agree with the last post, when you hit like that you pretty much have to be a great fielder to keep playing. although, speaking of the giants, i still don’t understand how johnny lemaster had a career as long as he did! any ideas out there?

Am I the only one who had never heard of Brett Carroll prior to this post?  That is pretty intense that he could be +13 in 319 defensive innings at a position like RF.

kouzmanoff didn’t make the cut?  how does the all-time NL record holder for fielding percentage among 3rd baseman, .990, not make the list? he made 3 errors all year at 3rd!  hmmmmm….padres prejudice, again.  sigh.

Jack just missed the cut, +9 for the Pirates, and +3 for Seattle.

Kouzmanoff rated well, +7.

No, Feliz was always a no-bat, excellent field third baseman. His runs saved from 2003-2008 courtesy of John Dewan/Fielding Bible: +7, +11, +16, +17, +26, +4.

Out of curiosity, who were the worst fielders? Dunn, Hawpe, Betancourt, Dye, Braun, etc.?

No Ryan Zimmerman? Would his early season throwing errors affect his runs saved statistic? clearly more range than a number of 3Bs on this list.

Diamond, yes that’s true, but it’s also true of the BIS and STATS records that UZR is based on. 

Using HITf/x data to measure fielding would be a huge step up, but nobody’s doing that with the HITf/x data yet.

As for hitf/x, how many games is that available for?  Are they including that for all games or just selected stadiums?

It is my understanding that Sportvision has been calculating Hit f/x for all stadiums this year.  the data has been available to the teams.  Only April has been made publicly available.  Whether the Hit f/x data will ever become publicly available is now in question.  Sportvision has the ability to give us Hit f/x data on all hit balls where they have collected Pitch f/x data.