Comments on: Jacoby Ellsbury Secretly Sucks at Defense

By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:48:33 +0000

I agree Joe R. In the time since this post went up I’ve made it my business to take a close look at Jacoby. A very close, penetrating look. It’s been hard, unpleasant work but someone had to do it. And weird routes to balls seems to be in evidence, yes.

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By: Joe R

Joe R — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:48:28 +0000

Juan Pierre-itis. He tends to take some weird routes to balls. Doesn’t help that Jason Bay isn’t cleaning him up at all.

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:43:16 +0000

Lyndsay, I agree – having Eck is FABULOUS. He’s far and away the best commentator of the 30 or so subs they’ve had this season. I am so sad I missed the “Masturbate” gaffe though.

And yes, his man-love for Bard knows no bounds. How forlorn Buck must feel – cast aside like an old shoe!

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By: Lyndsay

Lyndsay — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:17:22 +0000

speaking of Eck – I may be alone in this regard, but I think he and Orsillo make the best duo since Don&Remy. he just provides Don with a wealth of material to work with. he’s hilarious, intentionally or not. in fact I wouldn’t mind if he stayed in the booth once RemDawg comes back!

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By: Lyndsay

Lyndsay — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:13:31 +0000

he’s been over it ever since Danny “The Gas” Bard came into the picture. watch him comment on Bard – it harkens back to his excited post-game tributes to the Buck of spring ‘08.

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:50:12 +0000

Lyndsay, did you notice tonight that the Eck seems to have gotten over his man-crush on the Buck? It’s almost like he’s already said goodbye…

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By: Lyndsay

Lyndsay — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:39:09 +0000

Dennis Eckersley: “he’ll get a Golden Glove one of these days, don’t ya think?”

- an almost-exact quote on Ellsbury during tonight’s game

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By: Lyndsay

Lyndsay — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:49:13 +0000

Sarah, don’t forget his perfect eyebrows!!!

I refuse to believe any of this. Jacoby is made of rainbows and dreams, dammit!

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:21:45 +0000

Thanks for the comments, guys. We had an interesting debate about this on Facebook today. Reactions ranged from outright disbelief (“I am willing to bet that there is a glitch somewhere in the calculation of the statistic”) to a “pop gun arm” and taking bad routes to the ball to getting bad jumps. Frankly I don’t know enough about math to know if this is so, but one person suggested that Jacoby’s a league with some great defensive CF’s which skews the stats because the “average” fielder is so good.

Got any thoughts, more advanced stat-heads?

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By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:13:10 +0000

I’m not surprised… I saw him lose a game in Anaheim single handedly with his glove (although Papi leaving 12 runners on that same day didn’t help, I’m sure). He’s afraid of the wall and often makes bad reads. When his speed makes up for a bad read, he can make some spectacular catches, so he looks better than he is. Hopefully it’s something he can learn, he does have the raw tools to be a great defender.

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