Jeff Francoeur : Does his Defense at RF justify the Mets possibly keeping him?
I mean...I know this argument has been done to death as far as Church and Frenchy go. But I see Frenchy has a way better arm than Church did. We all know about OBP and all that business regarding Frenchy so I won't open that can of worms again. I just want to get everyone's opinion on whether his DEFENSE being good enough to warrant the Mets holding on to him in the foreseeable future.
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Well Church was better defensively.
"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."
No
While his throwing arm is apparently as valuable as ever, his range has diminished. And like Evan said, Church is just as good as Frenchy in the field (if not better).
by James Kannengieser on Aug 2, 2009 10:22 AM EDT reply actions
And
Church can play a bit of center in a pinch. And he’s actually better than replacement level offensively.
It's not so much weighting
it just tries to calculate the runs saved by each and add.
King of the bling come to lay down the evidence//Not George Bush, L-Millz be da president
I think UZR and maybe +/-
account for baserunners not taking an extra base because an OF has a good throwing arm.
by James Kannengieser on Aug 3, 2009 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions
I believe that only applies to the batter in UZR's case.
I’m pretty sure plus/minus does factor that in.
"If I ever decide to do a book, I've already got the title...The bases were loaded and so was I."
-Jim Fregosi
by Stephen Schmidt on Aug 5, 2009 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions
He is bad defensively, outside of the good arm, bad range
he turns too many singles into doubles and doubles into triples. He is bad. Church was much better.
He just missed that one in the lights
It’s not like he lets balls get pass him and roll to the wall or something
by Jadden Hopkins on Aug 3, 2009 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Well, he definitely let that one roll to the wall.
He didn’t lose it in the lights. He just screwed up.
by BobbyV_Incognito on Aug 3, 2009 6:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Jeff Francoeur's future in baseball appears as a RH platoon player.
Career vs. RHP: .257/.289/.406 isoP: .032, ISO .149
Career vs. LHP: .289/.334/.470 isoP: .045, ISO .181
Today's perfromance shows while he'll never be good enough to be a regular player.
He has played “well” since he’s been here and it’s still not enough to be an everyday RF. It’s a shame because he has some talent, but he will never succeed if he sees 1 pitch every other at bat.
Atlanta fans coined the “Failcoeur” nickname and I don’t like borrowing anything from them, so I shall henceforth refer to him as “One Pitch”.
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but Jerry abuses the privilege.
wow *performance
I am the Jeff Francoeur of spelling
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but Jerry abuses the privilege.
by AnthonyR on Aug 4, 2009 12:48 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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