Good Camden Depot article on the offense-defense tradeoff

[Frobby]

http://camdendepot.com/analysis_average_performance_infield.html

Among other things it says Izturis probably won't hit well enough to be an average SS overall, but is still a good value at $2.5 mm.

[Lucky Jim]

Those are smart fellas.

[crawdad]

Those are smart fellas.

Oh, we are not too smart . . . just occasionally relevant. Thanks for the compliment.

Just to clarify some folks concerns . . . the way one uses those graphs is by determining how many runs a players saves or gives up on defense. That gives you the threshold line. Then you take his OBP and SLG (retrospective if you take past seasons, predictive if you use a projection system) to determine where he falls in. Over on the SunBoard a poster was concerned about me incorporating UZR/150 into the consensus of defensive stats I used to determine where the example players lined up. One does not need to use that statistic to use the graphs.