Defensive runs saved leaderboard

[markedman5]

I hadn’t looked at this in awhile.

Points of interest………

Mitchell has 7 runs saved in only 328 innings 

Frelick is very good in right but has struggled in left

Chourio can play both well

Turang is magnificent 

Brewers as a team are 3rd in baseball but are best in the NL by 25 runs over 2nd place Dodgers

https://archive.fieldingbible.com/DRSLeaderboard

[sveumrules]

14 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

I hadn’t looked at this in awhile.

Points of interest………

Mitchell has 7 runs saved in only 328 innings 

Frelick is very good in right but has struggled in left

Chourio can play both well

Turang is magnificent 

Brewers as a team are 3rd in baseball but are best in the NL by 25 runs over 2nd place Dodgers

https://archive.fieldingbible.com/DRSLeaderboard

Small samples like Mitchell in CF and Frelick in LF are prone to more outlier results with DRS, but even zooming out to their whole careers, the Brewers have a pretty sick collection of defensive outfielders...

Perkins (1175 inn.)
+20 DRS | +16 FRV

Frelick (1404 inn.)
+16 DRS | +11 FRV

Chourio (989 inn.)
+12 DRS | +6 FRV

Mitchell (660 inn.)
+11 DRS | +4 FRV

Going back to 2022 when Mitchell debuted there are 196 outfielders with at least 600 innings played. Only 29 of them have +11 DRS or more and four of those are Brewers, a fifth (Tyrone Taylor at +17) put up most of his numbers in Milwaukee too.

Also aways fun to compare the results of DRS which BRef uses for their WAR calculations and FRV, which is the StatCast defensive metric used by FanGraphs for their WAR.

Most of the Brewers totals are pretty close, but there are a couple of interesting divergences at the top...

Adames SS (1179 inn.)
-12 DRS | +1 FRV

Turang 2B (1054 inn.)
+22 DRS | +4 FRV

Contreras C (894 inn.)
+1 DRS | -3 FRV

Ortiz 3B (871 inn.)
+6 DRS | +6 FRV

Perkins CF (775 inn.)
+9 DRS | +9 FRV

Frelick RF (634 inn.)
+12 DRS | +7 FRV

Hoskins 1B (618 inn.)
-3 DRS | -4 FRV

Chourio LF (536 inn.)
+4 DRS | -1 FRV

Bauers 1B (467 inn.)
-2 DRS | -1 FRV

Chourio RF (453 inn.)
+8 DRS | +7 FRV

Yelich LF (402 inn.)
-4 DRS | -2 FRV

Mitchell CF (245 inn.)
+6 DRS | +2 FRV

Sanchez C (207 inn.)
-1 DRS | -2 FRV

Frelick CF (168 inn.)
+3 DRS | +1 FRV

Frelick LF (155 inn.)
-5 DRS | -3 FRV

With the emphasis the Brewers put on defense all around the diamond I would guess their internal models spit out results closer to DRS (which values defense around +/- half a run a game on a team level at the far ends of the spectrum) than they are to FRV (which is closer to +/- a quarter run a game at the far ends of the spectrum).