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So now with close to a season’s worth of experience playing on the turf, perhaps Maicer Izturis will can anticipate how baseballs will behave on the turf much better in 2014. Maicer played 56 games at second base, 28 at shortstop, and 36 at third base. It appears Izturis did have some trouble with easy plays at shortstop at third base, but perhaps part of that can be equated to him moving around the diamond so frequently this past season. There were no indications he may have difficulty on the turf, so the onus should fall on advanced scouting for failing to pick up on that. The odd thing about Maicer Izturis is he appeared to be a defensively sound infielder entering the 2013 season. Judging by the graphs, it looks like he really didn’t have all that difficult a go a second base with the Blue Jays there aren’t many high difficulty made plays, and he only missed a handful of routine plays at second.

Izturis definitely had trouble adjusting to the learning curve which comes with working on artificial turf 81 games a year. Next to Emilio Bonifacio, it was probably Maicer Izturis who received the most criticism in 2013 when it comes to Blue Jays infielders.

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After some nagging back issues the past few years, it seems like the Blue Jays are slowly but surely transitioning Adam Lind back into a full time DH role. The only thing that really comes into question is Lind’s durability in the field. Adam Lind seems perfectly adequate at his post at first. Truth be told, first base is not exactly a premium position when it comes to defense, so it’s not really crucial to have an extremely defensively sound first baseman. Here’s the name of the game in the Made Plays charts, red and orange dots are really good, and green dots are bad in the Missed Plays charts.Īnd keep in mind, these guys are making upwards of 300 plays a season, so a few dots here and there shouldn’t be cause for concern. And thanks to FanGraphs spray charts, here we can look at all of the Blue Jays infielders individually. One can point to new infielders adjusting to playing on the Rogers Centre turf, but overall defense was not at a premium.īrett Lawrie and Ryan Goins were the lone standouts in what was otherwise a below average fielding team.

It’s safe to say defense was one area where the 2013 Toronto Blue Jays were severely lacking.

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