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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
Good summation. It's also the reason Mike Trout can catch 3 routine fly balls in Centerfield and his dWAR score goes up, and why Don Mattingly can scoop 3 badly thrown balls out of the dirt at 1st Base, and his dWAR score goes down.
dWAR is vicious with 1st Basemen and Right Fielders.
I think Defensive WAR is much harder to quantify then offensive WAR.
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Yeah, its extremely difficult to have a positive dWAR as a first baseman or right fielder--Keith Hernandez, who many consider to be the greatest fielding first baseman ever has a career dWAR of 1.3.
Roberto Clemente, widely considered the greatest fielding right fielder ever has a career dWAR of only 12.2. Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Mel Ott, Reggie Jackson, Tony Gwynn, Vlad Guerrero, Dave Winfield, Harry Heilmann, Paul Waner, and Bryce Harper all have negative dWAR, many of them by double digits.
And yeah, I think its harder to measure dWAR than oWAR.