Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 18, 2002
Expos Defense:

I was just watching the Royals-Expos game (I thought I'd watch the worst game on TV tonight) and Guerrero dropped a linedrive hit at him. The announcer said it was the 2nd time that happened tonight. Sure enough, I just looked at the defensive efficiency record for the Expos. DER is the percent of time a ball is put into play is turned into an out, taking out HR. Expos are last in the NL.

I wondered if the ballpark had something to do with (outfielders losing balls in the roof or the lights), but the Expos are much better at home. They have a .696 DER at home, only .649 on the road. This makes some sense, since artificial turf usually means cleaner bounces and fewer errors.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:36 PM | Baseball