{"id":464356,"date":"2022-06-17T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-the-stats-dont-reveal-anthony-rizzos-defensive-impact\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:20:00","slug":"why-the-stats-dont-reveal-anthony-rizzos-defensive-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-the-stats-dont-reveal-anthony-rizzos-defensive-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why the stats don&#8217;t reveal Anthony Rizzo&#8217;s defensive impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28145d513df\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28145d513df\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-the-stats-dont-reveal-anthony-rizzos-defensive-impact\/#%E2%80%9CWhy_the_stats_dont_reveal_Anthony_Rizzos_defensive_impact%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Why the stats don&#8217;t reveal Anthony Rizzo&#8217;s defensive impact&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhy_the_stats_dont_reveal_Anthony_Rizzos_defensive_impact%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Why the stats don&#8217;t reveal Anthony Rizzo&#8217;s defensive impact&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/rizzo-catch.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Anthony Rizzo knows the defensive metrics available to the public aren\u2019t doing him any favors.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fangraphs, since being credited with a career-best 13 defensive runs saved in 2016, the Yankees first baseman has had a steady decline in the category, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/players\/anthony-rizzo\/3473\/stats#fielding\">bottoming out at -6 DRS last season<\/a>. And this year, he\u2019s already at minus-4, among the worst in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Statcast treats him no better, registering a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/savant-player\/anthony-rizzo-519203?stats=statcast-r-fielding-mlb\">minus-4 outs above average for Rizzo<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/leaderboard\/outs_above_average?type=Fielder&amp;startYear=2022&amp;endYear=2022&amp;split=no&amp;team=&amp;range=year&amp;min=q&amp;pos=3&amp;roles=&amp;viz=hide\">minus-3 runs prevented<\/a>. Only <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/leaderboard\/outs_above_average?type=Fielder&amp;startYear=2022&amp;endYear=2022&amp;split=no&amp;team=&amp;range=year&amp;min=q&amp;pos=3&amp;roles=&amp;viz=hide\">three first basemen rank lower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like when it comes to those numbers, first basemen kind of get [screwed],\u201d Rizzo said. \u201cI don\u2019t think they measure footwork around the bag, not coming off the [base]. I don\u2019t really know how it all works or what makes someone good or bad.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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According to Fangraphs, since being credited with a career-best 13 defensive runs saved in 2016, the Yankees first baseman has had a steady decline in the category, bottoming out at -6&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":464357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/rizzo-catch.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[130439,78018,118853,109942,130451,70722,115930],"class_list":["post-464356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-17-22","tag-anthony-rizzo","tag-inside-the-yankees","tag-lucas-luetge","tag-luis-medina","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-post-sports-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}