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Defensive WAR vs. Gold Glove Wards

I still don't get or know of most of Sabermetrics (the modern statistics of baseball).

Like, if Andrew Benentendi of the Boston Red Sox finished the 2018 MLB regular season with a cumulative -0.6 Defensive Wins Above Replacement (dWAR), then why would He be nominated for a 2018 MLB Gold Glove Award?

With Sabermetrics (and a lot of other things in my life) I wait to do research until I am fairly sure it will payoff or until there are competing things which can't all be true given my understandings of how things work. I'm going to have to figure out why Defensive WAR and the Gold Gloves' system don't seem to be measuring the same things when it comes to defense and fielding in Major League Baseball.

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I'm not sure what to think of the University of Louisville being in the real estate business. Whether it's focusing too much on athletics, obsessing about intellectualism which is difficult to apply in the labor market, or doing stuff like this; I think "higher ed" often loses sight of its vocational mission.

Still, if medical schools find it pedagogically helpful to operate "teaching hospitals" to train medical students, residents, and fellowship students while keeping proffesors sharp - AND they can make a lot of money at it while providing a valuable service to many - then they should do so, and, maybe, business schools should operate a commercial consulting group and schools of education should run elementary charter schools.

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PROSPECT: Christian Pache; Atlanta Braves

As if it's fair that the Braves have yet another hot prospect.

After Dansby Swanson, Ronald Acuna Jr., Ozzie Albies, Kyle Wright, Mike Soroka, Ian Anderson, Touki Toussaint, Austin Riley, Luiz Gohara, Drew Waters, and Bryce Wilson; I am now looking at Christian Pache as another great and young talent on the MLB.com Top 100 Prospect Watch list.

He's different, because His strengths are fielding and speed - both scored at "70" on the scouting scale of "20" to "80". He is only 68th on the list, but at 19-years-old (and about to be 20 in November) He's near the top of a short list of the best MLB prospects His age.

I think MLB.com is shorting Him too much a bit. There are many prospects above Him with grades of "50" or "55" across all skills. He has those, but also has two "70" scores. There are not many prospects out there with just one "70". He has two.

Running and fielding are youthful stats which are the first to leave a player near the age of 28 (Jose Altuve?). But, still. The analysis at MLB.com says He might be the best defensive prospect in MiLB. That's a large statement.

Defensive Wins Above Replacement (WAR) scores make a huge difference to a lot of players and teams. Defensive WAR is one of the great benefits of SABRmetrics in the modern baseball world. If Pache can keep His fielding and running where it is, and up His average or His average and His power; then, He could be quite a player.

The Braves, with so many choices of young talent, had Pache end the year at the AA level, so it's obvious they have high expectations and regards for Him. If He debuts in the MLB next year at 20-yrs-old or even the next year as a young 21-year-old, He'll offer coveted hopes for prodigious WAR and other statistical production which always gets that type of player rolling more quickly towards a Hall of Fame resume.

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