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for inattention = bad defense would be if you could split UZR into when in a blow out (up or down by 4+ runs) vs. in a tight or important ball game.
Of course UZR doesn't have these types of splits, and the samples would be so small in single years you would have to do it by 3 year clumps I would guess.  Matt, could you throw those types of splits into your defensive stat?
Also this in general could explain the difference between Guti 2009 (when we were still actually fighting for something late into the year) and 2010 (when we were basically out of it in mid April).  Maybe Guti lost than tiny imperceptible bit of edge that a contending (or near contending) team has.  This might also be an area where a superlative manager can improve his ball players, if he can give those players a external reason to have that edge without them having to generate it from the score of the game or the teams place in the standings.