Atlanta Braves Will Be Solid in Middle, But What’s the Impact?
The Atlanta Braves have improved their up-the-middle defense for 2017. It’s one thing to have excellent defensive players on the field. It’s another to see why that matters.
Yesterday we compared defenders in the 2B/SS/CF positions around the league and found that the Atlanta Braves will have one of the few teams without a serious flaw among their projected regulars for these slots.
Today I want to go to the next step: identifying how that might translate from on-the-field promise to box score improvement.
To do this, we’ll go back to the fangraphs’ data and break it down using league-wide 2016 numbers to show how the best and worst fared on the field.
So let’s start the breakdown… at the keystone sack.