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Originally Posted by NeedChapmans
Mike Trout has never been a good center fielder; and isn't considered one this year either. Mookie Betts has won back to back gold gloves in right field, and for WAR purposes, has had terrific defensive metrics across the board.
Not this year of course. This year, for some reason, WAR has Mookie has a below average right fielder. Someone can attempt to quantify this for me; but watching him every night, I've yet to see a play where I said "Mookie should have had that" and plenty of "Wow, can't believe he got that".
WAR sucks.
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Eye test is just as unreliable, probably worse. Regardless, I haven't even looked at the defensive numbers this year for these two, I'm just saying it matters in general. Not as simple as saying theyre both good so it cancels out, thats all I'm saying. Positional adjustment also obviously matters here and park remains a huge deal.