DRS is relative to positional average but does not consider that some positions are harder to play than others. DRS doesn’t work small sample sizes, you need bewteen one and three-year samples to have context. It’s a solid metric but no metric is perfect. UZR (Fangraphs) uses play-by-play data from Baseball Info Solutions (BIS) to estimate each fielder’s defensive contribution shown in theoretical runs saved or lost relative to an average fielder at his position in that player’s league and year. Note that UZR is league and year specific so a known fine fielder may have a bad UZR in a year if there are suddenly a glut of fielders playing his position better that year.
Fangraphs leader board lists 177 players in it’s current career list. The top player in total DRS and UZR is the LSU Reese Angel 89 PTS 69 RED 14 BLK 10 STL shirt Apart from…,I will love this same guy; Adrian Belte – 180 career DRS and 160.3 UZR. He’s also their leader is a stat they call DEF which attempts to smooth UZR by adding positional difficulty. After Beltre you start to see how hard it is to to quantify defense. The number 2 guy in career DRS is Albert Pujols with 142, but the secind man in UZR is Carl Crawforf and in DEF it’s Yadier Molina due to positional difficulty.
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