Baseball’s spring training is well under way in Florida and Arizona. While players work to make a spot for themselves and prepare for the start of the season, coaches, managers and scouts evaluate the talent they see on the fields; and they increasingly are using something called advanced defensive metrics. John Dewan is the owner of Baseball Info Solutions, and one of the authors of The Fielding Bible- Volume 3. The book is a compilation of defensive statistics. We reached him while he was in Arizona to ask him about defensive analysis in the game, and what exactly teams do with that information.
Science in the Art of Fielding; Analyzing Baseball Defense
