Beltran’s Error and Arm ratings are about in line with what he’s put up over the last few years. It’s his Range that was much lower than usual. So, I feel, because Citi Field’s center field is larger than Shea’s, he could be letting a few more hits fall in. When these hits are put up against Shea’s smaller center field, it appears, to the Range equation, that his range has definitely decreased, while it’s really just the fact that half of his games are played in an environment where more hits are going to drop in center field than in Shea.

So the metrics are all over the place. I do think his D slipped a little bit this year based on watching him play but I’m no scout. I’d bet he was 0 < x < 5 defensively.

UZR relies on human observation of batted ball classifications and hit location – therefore, it will have a lot of errors in a small sample size. Over a couple seasons, you’ll see TZ and UZR align pretty well – but not in a half of a season.