Help make the fourteenth annual survey a success by providing your opinion on fielders.
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Done.
Thanks, Tango, for doing this every year.
Thanks, Tango, for doing this every year.
Interesting -- and comforting -- how few fans have bought into the broadcast team impression of Smoak as a top flight defender. Of course, it's not John Q Public filling in these evaluations.
Tango, there might be a disadvantage to doing these in-season. I think that recency bias (i.e. the last 2-3 weeks) might affect the way many people rate. I have a couple of ratings in mind (as of today) but I'll save my comments until a little more time passes.
one of our guys is having his arm tremendously underrated.
I agree. On the other hand, if I do this offseason, I'll have much fewer responses.
There's been enough time now I think....
...imo the grades on Pillar's release and accuracy are way too low. imo he is near elite in both of these, which makes up for his lack of arm strength.
.....also imo the grades on Travis are low across the board...his range and arm strength are at worst average, and iml everything else is comfortable above. he's quite good defensively.
...it was harder to find overratings as the grades all look pretty tough there....i'd probably grade goins tougher, and most specifically his glovework, where i think his mistakes happen but get ignored due to his great range and arm.
...imo the grades on Pillar's release and accuracy are way too low. imo he is near elite in both of these, which makes up for his lack of arm strength.
.....also imo the grades on Travis are low across the board...his range and arm strength are at worst average, and iml everything else is comfortable above. he's quite good defensively.
...it was harder to find overratings as the grades all look pretty tough there....i'd probably grade goins tougher, and most specifically his glovework, where i think his mistakes happen but get ignored due to his great range and arm.
Travis had a memorably poor week (or two) which speaks to Mike's point about recency bias.
Jose Bautista's throwing rating presents a bit of an issue for an evaluator. For most of the season, he was not throwing at all because of his shoulder. In the last month or so, he has been throwing almost as well as he did at his best. What do you do with a player who is 4 months of a 1 rating and 1 month of a 4 rating? What we seem to have done as a group is picked a mid-point, and that seems reasonable to me. In Bautista's case, we avoided the recency bias (I think).,
It might be useful to remind people that you are looking for a rating that reflects average performance over a year for the player rather than the best or worst. That might seem self-evident, but it might be a good idea because of recency issues.
It might be useful to remind people that you are looking for a rating that reflects average performance over a year for the player rather than the best or worst. That might seem self-evident, but it might be a good idea because of recency issues.