Back when the DiamondView was created over at Beyond the Boxscore, I was intrigued by the visual application of statistics. The Hardball Times is doing something similar in attempting to bring visuals to statistics. Essentially, DiamondView uses a ballpark to visually show people just how good (or bad) a player was at the four major aspects of the game: hitting, power, defense and baserunning. It can be a great point of comparison method for sabermetricians and a great way for non-sabermetricians to glean value from advanced statistics.
Today, the Red Sox’s DiamondView was released. I’m not putting any pictures in here, so you’ll have to click to see them. But a couple thoughts:
- Wow, I didn’t realize how amazing Kevin Youkilis was.
- Poor Mike Lowell really is a liability at this point, eh?
- And the cult bandwagon of actually appreciating J.D. Drew gets fuller.