On Defense

I posted that right here on February 8. I really don’t think I was that far off base at the time. I based that conclusion on 2 things – the notion that Skip’s defense would be pretty bad and CHONE’s offensive projections for Skip. CHONE had Skip w/ a .328 wOBA – roughly league average – and 0.2 wRAA and a UZR/150 equal to 2008’s worst defensive 2nd baseman. Last year, Jeff Kent’s UZR/150 was minus 15.5. This led me to the conclusion that Skip would be worth roughly 0.7 WAR, hardly very good production from a regular player.

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