Is OAA a good stat?

Outs Above Average is very promising and the strong year-to-year correlation shows that the MLBAM group is on to something. Eventually, OAA could be a very good tool for evaluating outfield defense.
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What stat is OAA?

Outs Above Average (OAA) is a range-based metric of skill that shows how many outs a player has saved. Prior to 2020, OAA was an outfield-only metric. But it has been expanded to include infielders.
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What is a good OAA baseball?

Outs Above Average (OAA) is the cumulative effect of all individual plays a fielder has been credited or debited with, making it a range-based metric of fielding skill that accounts for the number of plays made and the difficulty of them.
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How is OAA calculated?

Outs Above Average (OAA) is a defensive statistic that measures fielding skill. It represents the amount of outs a player has saved. It's calculated by assigning values to plays based on their difficulty, and then adding the values of each play for a season-long cumulative number.
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What does Uzr stand for in baseball?

Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR)
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What is fielding runs above average?

Fielding Runs Above Average instead focuses on play-by-play data, taking a step back and focusing on the number of plays made compared to the average number of plays made by a player at said position.
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Is DRS or UZR better?

Both UZR and DRS are pretty similar in terms of what they strive to accomplish, though they don't get there entirely the same way. The main thing to remember when comparing the two is that UZR tends to be more average-y, while DRS tends to be more aggressively negative or positive.
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What UZR 150?

UZR/150 (ultimate zone rate per 150 games): The number of runs above or below average a fielder is, per 150 defensive games.
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Was Jeter a good fielder?

Jeter has been one of the worst defensive shortstops over the last decade by most statistical measures. His range rates abysmally and a below-average arm isn't helping matters. Regardless, Jeter continues to collect hardware and has five of the last eight AL shortstop gold gloves to his name.
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What is weighted runs created plus?

Weighted Runs Created Plus (wRC+)

wRC+ is the hitting stat that every baseball fan should use for analyzing hitting ability. It is all encompassing of hitting performance. wRC+ or Weighted Runs Created Plus puts a weighted value on each outcome for a hitter as it relates to run creation.
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How is xBA calculated?

Each batted ball is assigned an xBA based on how often comparable balls -- in terms of exit velocity, launch angle and, on certain types of batted balls, Sprint Speed -- have become hits since Statcast was implemented Major League wide in 2015.
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What is a fielding run?

A player's Fielding Runs number is used to estimate his Fielding Wins, an estimate of the number of games a team won above or below what it would have won with an average fielder (with zero Fielding Runs) at the player's position. Statistics That Require the Tracking of Batted Balls Metrics.
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How are doctors calculated?

To calculate Defensive Runs Saved, for each ball hit, points are either added or subtracted to the fielder's rating depending on whether or not they make the play. For example, if a ball hit to the center fielder is expected to be caught 30 percent of the time, and it is caught, the fielder gains 0.7 points.
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What does Sirp mean in baseball?

This is the second year we're delineating between two anticipated relief roles, the abbreviations for which you'll see in the “position” column below: MIRP for multi-inning relief pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning relief pitchers.
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Who invented Uzr?

UZR was created by Mitchel Lichtman. In both systems, a value of zero is considered average for the position; anything above zero is above average and anything below zero is below average.
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How are defensive runs saved calculated?

DRS quantifies a player's entire defensive performance by attempting to measure how many runs a defender saved. It takes into account errors, range, outfield arm and double-play ability. It differs only slightly from UZR (Ultimate Zone Rating) in its formula, but the concept is the same.
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What is a good fielding percentage?

Fielding percentages are very high for most major league players, more than 98% on average.
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What is the best defensive stat in baseball?

In the Outfield, Baseball Prospectus's Fielding Runs Above Average (FRAA) is the “best” defensive metric. In the Infield, MLB's Outs Above Average (OAA), which is based on Statcast and still evolving, is the “best” defensive metric.
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What is def FanGraphs?

Def is simply fielding runs above average (Ultimate Zone Rating at FanGraphs) and the positional adjustment added together and tells you about a player's total defensive value relative to league average. It is a cumulative stat, so it is based on the quality and quantity of your performance.
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What is Zone Rating Ootp?

Zone Rating breaks the field up into pieces (like it does to show where hits went on the play-by-play) and assigns each fielder a certain zone. The players ZR is based on how many outs they record in that zone versus how many hits are allowed.
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