Out of zone plays made

Out of zone plays made, known by the acronym OOZ, is a baseball statistic used to measure a baseball player's performance on defense.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The sabermetrics statistic is also a component other baseball statistics, including the Zone Rating and Revised Zone Rating (RZR) measures of a baseball player's defensive performance. It was developed by sports statistician John Dewan in the 1980s, and then enhanced by him in 2006.^[2][6]

OOZ reflects the number of plays a fielder makes on balls that were hit outside of his "zone".^[6][7] A player's "zone", for purposes of the definition, is considered those parts of the field in which on average a fielder is able to convert half of his chances into outs.^[7]

See also

• Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners
• Sabermetrics

References

1. ^ Matthew Leach (August 21, 2008). "Glaus has stats to be Gold Glover in '08". mlb.com. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080821&content_id=3345376&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb. Retrieved April 16, 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "RZR | FanGraphs Sabermetrics Library". Fangraphs. January 25, 2011. http://www.fangraphs.com/library/index.php/defense/rzr/. Retrieved April 16, 2011. 
3. ^ Mike DiGiovanna (February 24, 2011). "Angels hope playing the numbers game adds up to something special". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/24/sports/la-sp-baseball-stats-20110225/3. Retrieved April 16, 2011. 
4. ^ "Don't be so fast to yank Burrell". Courier Post. April 7, 2008. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courierpostonline/access/1711477231.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+27%2C+2008&author=&pub=Courier+Post&desc=Don%27t+be+so+fast+to+yank+Burrell&pqatl=google. Retrieved April 16, 2011. 
5. ^ Brandon Heikoop (November 6, 2008). "2008 American League "Shoulda" Gold Gloves". Bleacher Report. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/78266-2008-american-league-shoulda-gold-gloves. Retrieved April 16, 2011. 
6. ^ ^{a b} Sean Smith (April 2, 2007). "What is Zone Rating?". Hardball Times. http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/what-is-zone-rating/. Retrieved April 16, 2011. 
7. ^ ^{a b} Bryan Tsao, Carolina Bolado, Joe Distelheim (2007). The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008. ACTA Publications. ISBN 0879463414. http://books.google.com/books?id=f-PAoIg39dIC&pg=PA186&dq=%22OOZ%22+baseball&hl=en&ei=rx-qTerjBMTUgQfWo9HzBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=%22OOZ%22%20&f=false. Retrieved April 16, 2011.