Monday, August 02, 2004

Turf wars

People keep talking about Cabrera and Mientkiewicz's Gold Gloves, but they don't really mention that these two guys put up a lot of their defensive numbers playing on the turf of Olympic Stadium and the Metrodome respectively. Maybe Theo and the Sox know something about measuring defense on the tougher surface? One can only hope. Sox 1 Twins 1... Cabrera does his best to make himself welcome.


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Last I checked, astroturf makes defence harder because the artificial surfaces make the ball bounce and move around more and it's harder to move and dive on those surfaces. Grass has a greater dampening effect on balls. For an effective illustration, check out DLowe's turf/grass split last year. He had an ERA that was something like 2 points better. Granted, that was skewed by most of the grass starts being Fenway, but still...

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cheers-PJ

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