And your use of fielding percentage.
It is very likely that we had better fielders under Ron Fraser considering the sht show we put on the field these days. Fielding percentage, though, is not a stat you use to make that comparison.
No one looks at fielding percentage anymore. That’s a dead statistic. Balls that you don’t even get to because you’re not that good are never errors. Ever.
The defensive woes go hand in hand with our lazy recruiting philosophy. We go after travel ball heroes who can hit. Period. We stopped trying to identify real baseball players.