Average Range Rank for Left Fielders

For my last installment of Average Rank Rank, I present the left fielders. The 24 left fielders with 600 or more innings in 2005 are listed in the table below. There are no Tigers on the list as the position was split between Monroe (who qualified in right field), White, Young and others. Baseball’s leader was Coco Crisp (2.5). Miguel Cabrera (22.8) was at the bottom of the list.

This concludes, for now, my discussion of Average Range Rank. Measurement of fielding range will continue to be a favorite topic of mine in the future as it is still one of the hot sabermetric topics of the day. For the next several days, however, I’ll be getting warmed up for Spring training by writing a position by position preview of what to look for in Lakeland this March.

Average Range Rank: left fielders in 2005

Player	Team	Innings	Best Rank	Worst Rank	ARR
Crisp	Cle	1200	2	4	2.5
Johnson	Atl	648	1	8	3.3
Crawford	TB	1247	2	5	3.5
Podsednik	CWS	1062	3	7	5.0
Winn	Sea	796	1	11	5.5
Mench	Tex	978	6	9	7.5
Holliday	Col	1050	3	11	7.8
Floyd	NYM	1264	6	11	8.5
Burke	Hou	634	1	21	10.3
Gonzalez	Ari	1318	5	20	11.5
Bay	Pit	1186	6	16	12.0
Stewart	Min	1107	7	20	12.5
Matsui	NYY	977	9	22	13.0
Lee	Mil	1404	12	18	14.3
Feliz	SF	616	14	15	14.5
Dunn	Cin	1091	8	18	14.8
Klesko	SD	927	12	20	15.3
Catalanotto	Tor	761	15	17	16.3
Anderson	LAA	920	14	21	18.0
Burrell	Phi	1297	10	23	18.5
Long	KC	794	18	22	19.5
Sanders	StL	636	18	24	21.3
Ramirez	Bos	1225	19	24	22.3
Cabrera	Fla	1106	21	24	22.8