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AnonymousI think that an initial assessment of a players fielding can include the following stats: G, TC, PO, A, E, DP, Avg.
Although I haven't thought much about fielding - ever - it seems apparent that further subdivisions could include: grounders and fly balls for TC, DP and errors, with throwing errors broken out seperately.
Also an assessment for infielders (including catchers) on bunts and pop flys could produce interesting data for comparisons. Covering steals and other aspects of fielding also appear on first glance to be parameters which could be addressed.
Certainly the above does not constitute an "analyzing the crap out" level of data production, but as an "off the top of my head" example, it appears to be a reasonable start. I imagine that SABR has gone way further than this. I wonder why they abandoned the effort.