Team SFR Totals 2007

In the Schrodinger's Bat column titled "Defense and Alphabet Soup" I discussed how the SFR system was developed. Last night I plugged a couple of holes by including the context for batter handedness and taking into consideration the impact of bunts. In doing so I re-ran the numbers for 2007 and so I thought it would be interesting to look at the totals by team. Keep in mind this is for infielders only. In the table below Balls are the total number of balls assigned to all infielders for that team. There is overlap here since the virtual areas of responsibility for shortstop, say, and thirdbaseman both take into consideration ground balls that reach left field. ExRunners are the expected number of runners to reach base. Diff is the difference between the expected number and the actual number (so for Colorado 1988 runners were expected to reach based but only 1895 did). 2B are the number of two base hits the team either saved (a positive number) or gave up (a negative number) and 1B are the number of singles in a similar fashion.

Team              SFR      Balls  ExRunners  Diff      2B      1B
COL                72       4092     1988      93       9      84
SDN                72       3795     1798      91      10      80
TOR                65       3885     1845      84       8      76
SFN                54       3754     1797      69       9      60
BOS                54       3537     1678      69       9      60
OAK                44       3876     1880      57       5      52
SLN                37       4008     1946      47       6      41
MIN                34       3650     1733      43       8      35
CHN                28       3514     1659      35       5      30
ATL                24       3677     1709      32       4      28
NYN                21       3633     1728      27       2      25
PHI                20       3860     1855      25       3      23
ARI                16       3724     1817      20       3      18
NYA                15       3806     1861      19       5      14
ANA                5        3608     1770       7       0       7
BAL                4        3762     1822       6       0       6
KCA                -3       3823     1927      -3      -3      -1
TEX                -9       3979     1955      -9      -4      -5
WAS               -12       3850     1852     -15      -2     -14
PIT               -14       4004     1939     -19       0     -18
CLE               -17       3971     1895     -22      -2     -20
DET               -18       3848     1837     -23      -2     -21
LAN               -18       3807     1814     -23      -4     -18
CHA               -23       3951     1904     -30       0     -30
HOU               -24       3904     1844     -30      -5     -25
SEA               -38       3962     1901     -48      -6     -42
CIN               -56       3910     1918     -72      -7     -66
MIL               -63       3750     1819     -80     -10     -70
TBA               -72       3768     1867     -93     -10     -83
FLO               -109      3924     1914    -140     -17    -124

Florida winds up on the bottom by virtue of their primary defenders at all four primary doing extremely poorly.

Name              POS   Team        Balls     SFR
Aaron Boone        3    FLO           178      -6
Mike Jacobs        3    FLO           411     -14
Miguel Cabrera     5    FLO           735     -16
Hanley Ramirez     6    FLO          1046     -25
Dan Uggla          4    FLO           981     -37

It was a similar story for the Brewers...

Name              POS   Team        Balls     SFR
J.J. Hardy         6    MIL           973     -11
Prince Fielder     3    MIL           581     -13
Rickie Weeks       4    MIL           680     -24
Ryan Braun         5    MIL           520     -40

While Tampa Bay spread the love...

Name              POS   Team        Balls     SFR
Josh Wilson        4    TBA           157      -4
Akinori Iwamura    5    TBA           553      -4
Brendan Harris     4    TBA           257      -4
Ty Wigginton       3    TBA            61      -6
Ty Wigginton       4    TBA           235      -7
Ben Zobrist        6    TBA           175      -8
Josh Wilson        6    TBA           301     -13
Brendan Harris     6    TBA           580     -21

The Rockies did well in three of the four positions and claimed the top spot...

Name              POS   Team        Balls     SFR
Kazuo Matsui       4    COL           615      28
Troy Tulowitzki    6    COL          1180      25
Todd Helton        3    COL           609      13
Ian Stewart        5    COL            29       5
Jamey Carroll      4    COL           331       3
Garrett Atkins     5    COL           678     -12