The Braves didn’t win the 1996 World Series, and he didn’t win the ’97 National League Rookie of the Year award, but along with Chipper Jones (no relation) and the big three of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John Smoltz, he became a pillar of a franchise that won a remarkable 14 division titles from 1991 to 2005 (all but the 1994 strike season, with ’91–93 in the NL West and ’95–05 in the revamped NL East). Such comments only exacerbated the situation, but the disappointment of Jones’ downward spiral was soon overshadowed by the mania surrounding the July 31 acquisition of Manny Ramirez, who powered the Dodgers to the NL West flag and all the way to the NLCS before the team fell to the Phillies. While RED is not currently published anywhere, it is included among the alphabet soup of metrics in the SABR Defensive Index, which has accounted for 25% of the Gold Glove voting in non-pandemic seasons since 2013; in ’20, the SDI was used for the entirety of the selections because the geographically limited schedule prevented voters from seeing more than a third of the league.
Author: Jay Jaffe
Published at: 2025-12-08 23:07:18
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