Greg Burns and Defense (subtitle: Holy Shit)

[nny]

So I was just checking the total stats of our AFL guys and loling at greg burns line (.200/.667/.600/1.267. Here's a break down of his 12 PAs: 7 walks, 3 strike outs, 1 triple, 1 ground out )

I hopped over to his minorleaguesplit page, hoping that with his bad overall numbers that maybe he had a huge split and could atleast be useful against RHP (there's a split but he still sucks).

I then hopped to his defensive page.

and was just like

He was at +29 runs in CF this year in 435 chances going by TZ. His TZ/150: +41. +41 runs in 150 games.

To put that in perspective, if he puts up a terrible .650 OPS, he'd be on par production wise with a .810 OPS CFer.

I mean obviously with his speed he's gonna be a plus defensive CFer, but that's just crazy.

Now he probably isn't this good. He was at +13 (+20 TZ/150) last year. And a lot likely has to do with being in Jupiter these past two years in that oh so spacious park: He was +12 home/+1 away last year, +19 home/+9 away this year.

And in Greensboro and Jamestown, both tiny parks, he was -1/-7/-3 in '05/'06/'07.

Still, I think it's something to monitor. He might be able to develop into a ok back up CFer. Though really, with his strike outs, he's going to likely be nothing cry cry cry.

[Ramp]

He's absolutely garbage offensively. Not enough balls hit to CF to overcome the suckfest that is his bat

[Nick]

He's got a cannon for an arm too.

[Fish and Chips]

BC lite glove-wise?

[Jay]

Even if he is that good defensively, I doubt he gets any real shot at the bigs unless he cuts down on strike outs a lot and be able to hit for an average of about .260. Just making contact and getting the ball on the ground is his number 1 priority now. If he can do that he probably has a future somewhere

[Todd]

To his credit he gets on base at a decent clip, generally. He just sucks at every other aspect of hitting.