Not sure what numbers we're looking at here. UZR has him at +63.5 as a first baseman. That defense number next to his overall WAR includes a -12.5/season positional adjustment.Big Amoco Sign wrote: ↑May 18 21, 8:17 pmBecause he’s Pujols. It’s probably that he was too slow to get to anything hard to his right outside of 2007.
bWAR also says he wasn’t that good at defense in STL.
UZR is pretty fair to him as a Cardinal too. He was okay, but not great at defense. He was never Goldy level.
Goldschmidt is also a plus first baseman, but +45 DRS and +15 UZR as opposed to Albert's +141 (+123 for his first 10 years) and +63.5.
Not really. OPS+ actually gives OBP a heavier weighting than SLG unlike OPS and is closer to wRC+ than you might expect. Either way both bWAR and fWAR use wOBA for their WAR calculations so it doesn't really have anything to do with this discussion.Also wRC+ (what FG uses) is far superior to OPS+, like very much so.
Also wrong. DRS uses buckets and the same underlying data from BIS. It's my understanding that DRS tries to credit scoops for 1B and also takes out plays where the 1B is holding a runner on and calculates them separately. Maybe they get it right or maybe they don't but DRS tries harder for first basemen it seems.DRS is way too extreme with way larger margin for error. UZR is preferred with its methodology with its buckets.
A a big chunk of the discrepancy with Albert comes from the DRS Good Fielding Plays/Defensive Misplays (GFP/DME) where he's +30
BIS’s video scouts flag good and bad plays and categorize them into predefined descriptive groups. These categories include events like when an infielder has to settle for the out at first, because he bobbled the ball and lost the lead runner, or when a fielder doesn’t cleanly field a ball, but traps it near him and prevents runners from advancing further. The categories that don’t double-count things already in Plus/Minus are converted to runs above/below average in a similar way, then added in. Stuff like this is counted in the "rGFP" column on Fangraphs.
If you go to the simple DRS Plus/Minus it's higher over his career than UZR (+107 vs +63) but it starts to line up better and they agree on his good years vs bad years and it's mostly a matter of a few runs here and there over the course of two decades.