Why Bobby Abreu Still Isn’t Very Good

Rally’s bottom 10 in TotalZone: 1. Michael Cuddyer, RF, -26 2. Bobby Abreu, RF, -25 3. Vernon Wells, CF, -19 4. Gary Matthews Jr., CF, -17 5. Alberto Callaspo, 2B, -16 6. Orlando Cabrera, SS, -16 7. Lastings Milledge, LF, -16 8. David Wright, 3B, -15 9. Carlos Lee, LF, -14 10. Miguel Tejada, SS, -14 Rally updated these with park factors (scroll down to the comments) and Abreu was -9. Just to show that TotalZone isn’t the only defensive metric that thinks Abreu still sucks at fielding baseballs, there are some other metrics below. UZR: -9.9 RZR: .873 (2nd to last among qualified right fielders) OOZ: 36 (2nd to last) Dewan’s +/-: -10 (runs) So we’re talking about a fielder who was -10 runs while being better defensively than in year’s past. He’s also older. If Wrigley’s RF is really tougher than other parks, imagine how awful he’d be as a Cub. He had somewhat of a bounce-back year, but the Cubs would be wise to stay away from him once again.