Yeah, so in conclusion, move our Franchise player to a position he’s never played before because the Rays showed that moving a player from 3rd to 2nd builds Team Chemistry, Focus and Love (the most forgotten intangable in SABRmetrics) and we’ll be world series bound.

in BP defense numbers. They were just the most accesible to me for minor league defensive statistics. Obviously, I would also like to see more than just BP FRAA but I don’t know where to easily find it, do you know what sites I should visit?

However, in regards to scouts, in addition to all the subjectivity, sample issues, etc. to scouting, espically in the lower level to players who are not regarded as prospects (Murphy fits into the latter,) scouts have been known to been flat out wrong about defense if a guy doesn’t make webgems, have a cannon arm or have the “look” of a great defender. Over at Royals Review the topic of Aviles’ defense was often brought up. The scouts always talked about his poor defense but the numbers stated the opposite. It was until he was in the majors before the scouting reports slowly began to change while the stats stayed the same.

Anyways, not saying Murphy is perfectly comparable to Aviles, just that I tend to side with numbers over scouts even if they are as flawed as BP FRAA, but as the old saying goes, some people say cucumbers taste better pickled, so to each his own.