Monday, May 09, 2016
Positioning the outfielders
?Pirates are reeling them in.
Just to make sure this isn’t one of those instances where a team is all talk in the spring and no walk in the regular season, Mike Petriello’s got the data, and nobody’s playing a more shallow center field relative to last year than McCutchen. In 2015, McCutchen lined up 316 feet from home plate, on average. This year? He’s averaged a touch under 300 feet (data current as of May 2).