Outfielder Arms: the good, the bad and the ugly

OttoC

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Dec 2, 2003
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There are a couple of factors that need to be looked at, I think. One is the state of the game: visiting club down one run late in the game tries to score on anything. Another is the location of the batted ball with respect to the fielder: is it hit right at him and he is charging in or does he have to run hard to cut off the ball? In the l o n g run, these factors might even out but in the small sample sizes of a season, I'm not sure that they do. There is one other part to the fielding location. Until something better comes along, location is now recorded in zones on the field and their is only one point in each zone that is closest to the pertinent base. There could be a considerable longer distance (time) for throws from back of a zone than from the front.