Didn't mean to overstate your own resistance to subjective evaluations of great CF's (though that happened to be the main point of your post).
There *is* a bit of inconsistency on my part, in that I'm grabbing the best 10-or-so CF's from baseball opinion, but not buying 100% in to the ballplayers' admiration of Gutierrez. It's just that I think that the 10-years-period evaluation of Willie Mays is somewhat more sound than this summer's admiration of Gutierrez in a park that favors him.
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UZR is objective, but not completely reliable, as illustrated by its 'evaluation' of Raul Ibanez in 2009 vs in 2007-08. UZR had Raul as -10 to -20 runs a year here, and now it has him as costing the Phils absolutely no runs at all.
UZR frequently contradicts other objective metrics and frequently contradicts itself.
I hope I don't have to repeat that I think UZR is (one) valuable piece of information in any evaluation of a defender. ... I do suspect that UZR is going to look good for CF's in Safeco in general, however.
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I continue to be impressed by the fact that EVERYbody, other than me, thinks that Franklin Gutierrez is a tremendous defender. That's not something you want to take lightly. :- )
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