How on earth can you say Frenchy’s ARM is the problem? I have seen very few 3rd base coaches wave players home when the ball is hit to right field. And those who are waved are usually gunned down.
I didn’t read the whole article, and dont understand how they came up with this stat, but i doubt Francoeur is weighed down at all because of his throws.

THAT ROCKS!

its such a tease

I can’t read the article, either, but I am rather skeptical of a statistic that ranks players based on such a small number. The league leader has 7. It just seems very similar to ranking fielders by the number of fielding or throwing errors they make, which doesn’t get you too far. Sure, the player who is multiple standard deviations above the mean in errors is probably not a good fielder, but the utility of a statistic like that seems rather limited to me.

I will also chime in about the deterrent effect of Francoeur’s arm, which seems difficult to measure. I would not expect a player like Francoeur to get very many OF assists, because players so rarely challenge it. With that said, I haven’t been able to read the article, so I may be misinterpreting this, and my objections may have been covered in the piece.