These are the SLOPPIEST Infielders in Baseball

Jomboy went through thee data to find the sloppiest players at each infield position, how much the standings would change without the three worst teams, and the quickest tags in 2024

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0:00 Intro
0:50 Sloppy infielders
12:45 What if White Sox didn't exist?
21:10 Quickest tags of the season

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to Jimmy's Three Things. Thank you very
much for tuning in. My name is Jimmy. Three Things
I want to talk about in Major League Baseball today?
Who is the sloppiest player at each infield position, what
would the standings look like if the White Sox didn't exist?
And the quickest tags of the year. Welcome to Jimmy's
Three Things. Thank you very much for clicking play and

(00:21):
hanging out with me for a little bit as I
talk about three things I'm excited to talk about in
the world of baseball. Jimmy's Three Things is a production
of Dan Patrick Productions, John Boy Media, and Workhouse Media.
And we'll get right into it cause I like to
keep it quick. I have been fiddling around on the
Inside Edge program, which is amazing. Shout out to Inside Edge.

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It's really cool. And they have they have a tracker
that is poor play but not error. So imagine the
scorekeeper was a dick, right, and the scorekeeper had the
expectations that fans have that, oh dude, make that play.
Maybe even players have it of themselves, so they track. Hey,

(01:10):
this wasn't ruled in error, but that should have been
made right. Sometimes I haven't watched all of them. Sometimes
they're tough. Sometimes you're like, how the hell was that
not a rror? Yes? Uh So I went and I
looked at every infield position who's been the sloppiest, And

(01:30):
we'll start with first base, so you know, I can
scrape all the data from them and then calculate it.
And as far as poor plays go, the leader is
low we're in Texas or no, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
think that's Texas low. Guerrero, Vladdie, and Rizzo are tied

(01:54):
with six. Rizzo hasn't played a lot this year. He
just had a tough start. Then I said, all right, well,
let's let's come by errors, right, because those are poor
plays officially, And the first base and with the most
errors this year is Vlattie, tied with Das and then
inside edge. Also, lets you say they calculate, I can

(02:15):
show you they calculate first base scoops and I clicked, certain,
certainly this place should be made likely, and then I
calculated Scoop made no. So then I did that for
first base, and the leader in that is Hoskins and

(02:36):
then Vlattie. And when you total all that up, the
sloppiest first basement of the year is Vlattie. Twenty poor
plays plus errors plus did not make an easy scoop
equals twenty times that has happened. Low and Taglia are
tied for second with fifteen each. So let's go to

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the Let's go to the the videos and just see
what we're looking at. I just pulled a couple of them.
So again, remember what I said, imagine the scorekeeper is

(03:20):
a dick, because yeah, that's it's a nice play, Like
he makes a nice stop. At this point, I'm guessing
they're saying, like, should complete the play wasn't made? Should
the picture have caught it? So it's tough. Let's watch
another one. Yeah, that that's a play that should be made.

(03:44):
Gladdy loses it in his glove a little bit right there,
and then the again, Kakuchi just doesn't look at him.
So two tough ones. I'm Gladdy right away. I'll say
that the next one we have so that bounces off
his foot. That one bounces off his foot. Okay, another
one against the Yankees. Yeah, that was sloppy, just bobbled

(04:08):
it a while for a while, double played in and
get turned. That's the best thing. Oh boy, Oh no,
what what happened there, Laddie. Oh no, he went down
a run scored, Yeah, two on and two outs. He
can't come up with it, like short hops on him,
but then he falls all over his feet and then
he rolls around the best thing this stat does is
assumes the double play, which I really appreciate. Oh so

(04:35):
that's a scoop that you're gonna want to make, and
he didn't make, and then another scoop that you're gonna
want to make. Maybe the throw beat him anyway, But anyway,
that's how it came up. Let's keep moving because I
want to go through him quick. At second base, this
is exciting news. At second base we have Glaber Torres.

(05:00):
He is tied with Valdez for poor plays at eleven
and he has seventeen errors, so his total of slop
is twenty eight. Next his gell Off and Valdez tied
with sixteen. Oh my goodness, guess what that matches? The
eye test me watching my Yankees this year, Glaber has

(05:21):
been awful at second pace air. Let's watch some so
that one just throws it away should be a double play.
See that's not an error because you can't assume that
there will play, but a run scored on that, and
that should have been made. Next play, let's see, Oh,
he's playing in fumbles around with the ball for a while,
can't can't find it. This one going to his right,

(05:45):
so that's actually again that's a nice play. I wouldn't
really count that against Labor. I think that's an he's
trying to get the leader runner and what happened was
Oswald didn't get the tag down. So you know, you
can't count at blankly. But that's any stat there's outliers
and weirdness. Okay, that one just went under his glove.
A lot of that Glabor going to his left has

(06:05):
not been good. Yep, there's another one going to his left,
not good. Another one out of just kid doesn't get
going to his left. This one, oh my goodness, how
was that not an error? Just like a short hop
that he chopped at and this one, jeez, all right,

(06:25):
I gotta get out of here, making me boy to
his left again and up the middle. WHOA just rushed it.
There's a lot more we gotta get out of there.
Let's go back, all right. So Glabor is the sloppiest
second baseman. Who's the sloppiest shortstop. Well it's Gunner Henderson.

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Dei lu Cruz has twenty seven errors that leads the league,
but he's only got seven poor plays. Gunner Henderson has
twelve four plays and twenty three errs, so total thirty five.
But at a close race between him and de la Cruz.
Let's go look at some of gunners. What do we

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got here? Oh yeah, that just he just didn't get
that kind of chasing it weird. Oh a lot of
pink in this clip and this one he's coming up
the middle. How does this? Oh? Man? So that's also
what they account for a lot, because it's a human
track and it's like not aware of the situation like

(07:28):
the runners fast and he is not treating it like
Corbyn Carrol's running. Ooh in field in that is the
same thing this play. The way he runs after balls
to his right looks silly. Okay, hey wait, it's all

(07:51):
the als so far. That stinks. Ooh, hot shot right
at him. See that's if a scorekeeper was brutal. Oh no, gunner,
Oh no, what is this play? Oh my goodness? All right,
bases loaded? Hot shot he makes the stop, can't come

(08:12):
up with it? Tros goes for the tag, doesn't get
him flips there. That's sloppy. Yeah, that's sloppy. It's a
nice initial play. That one just eats him up and
then he eats the throw. Okay, yeah, oh boy. I
do not like the way he chases balls on his backhand.

(08:37):
That one just eats him up in the belle. That's
a hot shot. Geez. Yes, scorekeepers are jerks, and this
one that's what this status. It's like it's perfection expected.
Big chopper up the middle. Oh oh, he went too high.
He had to rush it, budd He threw through a

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two high first baseman to come off, all right, So
that's shortstop. And then at third base we have Suarez.
Ennio Suarez has the most poor plays. But poor plays
plus errors is uh Alec Bohm with twenty three. Actually's

(09:24):
tied with Paradis. It's tied with esak Uh Chapman and
Paradis have more errors. He only he has thirteen, they
have fifteen. But Bom has ten poor plays, so him
and Paradis are tied. I think I grabbed the rug footage.
I think I grabbed Suarez and Bomb. But here's some

(09:44):
Bomb plays. Yep. See. I like, I wish I could
find tune it a bit, but it's so tough because
it's like my eye test is different than everyone else's
eye test. But yes, let's assume double plays. I don't
know why we're not assuming double plays. Like if he
doesn't bobble this right here, that's a double play because

(10:06):
look at the difference. But he bobbled it. So I
kind of like looking at this stat But we've already
found sometimes where it's not great. Pulled Harper off the
bag on that one. That one just gets by him.
Oh hot shot, but bobbles it a little Yeah, stop bay,

(10:30):
I mean they're hard plays. Ooh yeah, not good? Where
are we London? There was different geez, he wanted to
go home bare hand. He didn't know how to play
that ball. That is such a hot shot. That's tough.
I don't know if i'd agree with that. One scorekeeper
is a jerk when it comes. Oh boy, that's just

(10:54):
he's too fast. That's a nice h What is that
on him or Harper? I feel like Harper can let
that come a little more, but then it'd be a
short pick there, guy Salvey, Oh look at this one. Okay,

(11:20):
So I also like this that because this is a
mental error. He forgot the amount of outs or forgot
that the batter is really slow, and he just takes
this and throw and steps on third base for the
force casually, but Perez is running, so they dock him
for that. So there is a human doing this. They're
just a little harder than I would be. Let's see
some of the swores ones at third. That's not good.

(11:44):
That's a little bit lazy. This one, Oh, he just
lets the ball play him, probably fast runner. Yep, can't
do that. Next one, Oh my goodness, what happened here?
No one covers second? He went, Yeah, where's where they're in?
Such a big shift in the second basement? Is that

(12:05):
Marte doesn't get there in time and he doesn't know that,
so it might be like a team slop. I think
this is a the way they do it. I think
it'd be better to see teams fumbles all over himself.
WHOA throws a second but it's high so they don't
turn it again. I like that, all right, So there
you have it the final leaderboard for infield. Maybe I
do this is when you combine poor plays errors and

(12:27):
in first base I did didn't make the scoop. It
was Vlattie glabor gunner bom slash uh parides so al
least coming for you with sloppy infield. Second segment on
today's show, what would the standings look like if the

(12:48):
White Sox didn't exist. That's the first thing I looked at,
because they were talking about on the broadcast yesterday how
fat the Twins and Royals have gotten because they get
to play the White Sox a lot. So I was
looking at that, and the Twins have the Twins have
gotten twelve wins from the White Sox, the twelve and one,

(13:11):
and the Royals have gotten eleven wins just from the
White Sox. So I went and I did did the
standings in the al with and without the White Sox.
And the thing that it changes is Red Sox become
a wild card team and the Twins drop, So Boston

(13:32):
isn't that fat off of the White Sox. They don't
get to play them as much. The Twins go from
seventy six and sixty eight to sixty four and sixty seven.
And this is again, this is just a silly caveat
because great, good job Twins get fat off the bad teams.
That's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to have

(13:54):
winning seasons and glutton the seasons off bad team. So
I'm not really knocking them. It's just a fun exercise
in my opinion. And so, but it is crazy they
go from a winning record to a losing record. If
the White Sox don't exist, and what else changes? Do
anything else change? In the AL West the Astros would

(14:17):
have a six game lead instead of a four and
a half game lead, And in the AL East, the
Yankees would have a two game lead over the Ools
instead of a game and a half, and the Red
Sox would be eight and a half back instead of ten.
And then I have so then I thought, that's interesting, Okay,
what if I do? I just take away the bottom

(14:40):
three teams for the whole league? Because I do like
looking if you've ever listened to me on Talking Baseball,
I do like looking at how do teams fare against
teams over five hundred teams are going to face in
the playoffs. But I kind of wish they would break it.
How do you fare against the top five teams? Then
the bottom five teams? Maybe if I do this again,
I'd take let's eliminate the top three and the bottom three,

(15:03):
and how does the middle matchup? Then? Would that be interesting?
What I did today? I eliminated the bottom three. So
I took How I did it was, I took wins
versus the wins and losses versus the Marlins, wins and
losses versus the Rockies, wins and losses versus the White Sox.

(15:26):
So I took your record and then bottom three teams?
How'd you fare? And if you want to see which
teams have you know, gotten the most fat of the
bottom if you do it by winning percentage, Minnesota has
an eight seventy five winning percentage against the bottom three
teams fourteen and two, then Pittsburgh, then the Astros, then

(15:48):
the Dodgers. Colorado is three and seven. They're the fourth
worst team. No, no, they're one of the worst teams.
So yeah, they're three and seven. But the Minnesota twin
fourteen and two against the bottom three teams. So it's
a fun exercise to look at when you look at
the National League. We have right now, the Phillies and

(16:16):
the Dodgers are both tied eighty six wins and fifty
eight losses, and then Milwaukee is three and a half
back from them. The Padres are in fourth place, then
the Diamondbacks, then the Mets, then the Braves. If you
toggle it and you take away the three bottom teams,

(16:37):
you get the Phillies are in first place. Milwaukee jumps
up there being second place, still winning their division, and
the Dodgers still winning their division. So the division leaders
stay the same. In the National League, but as far
as wild card goes, it would be the Padres, the Braves,
and the Mets, which I think is the same, right Padres, Braves, Mets.

(16:59):
The diamond would be out, they would lose right now,
and the Braves would jump up. In the American League,
there's more that happens because the White Sox and the
twin situation. The Yankees are in first place, Cleveland's a
game behind them, Then Baltimore makes Baltimore a wildcard team,
then Kansas City makes them a wildcard team, then Houston

(17:22):
makes them the West winner, then Minnesota, then Boston, then Seattle.
Now if you take away the bottom three teams, all
of sudden, Minnesota drops down real far. Tampa Bay climbs
above them, Seattle climbs above them, Boston climbs above them.

(17:46):
They are sixty two and sixty six. If you take
away the bottom three teams in the league and Cleveland
becomes the best team in the American League, then the
Yankees Baltimore would be the first wild card. Kansas City
still a wildcard team, good for them. Houston gets their division,
and then Boston would be the other wild card team.
But it'd be a real close race between It'd be

(18:08):
a really close race between Boston, Seattle, Tampa Bay, and
Minnesota and Detroit. They'd all be in it. So that's
what happens if you take away the worst the bottom
three teams. I didn't have time I was doing. I
did this on the train this morning. I thought of
it as I was driving to the train because I
remember them saying it on the broadcast last night. And

(18:29):
then while I was on the train with my hotspot,
I put all this info together. If I had more time,
I'd love to see take the top three teams and
the bottom three teams and erase them and how does
the middle average out? How much does that change. I'd
be interesting and I'd like to do this like historically
the last couple of years, if you take away the
bottom three teams, how much different. Does it look and

(18:51):
does that reflect how the playoffs went at all? Probably not,
but I kind of find an interesting and man kind
of looks bad for the Twins they drop so much,
but I mean good for them. Get in fat, because

(19:11):
if the playoffs are a crapshoot and you just need
to get into the dance, well, the easiest way to
get into the dance is kick the shit out of
the bad guys and the bad teams. And that's what
they've done. Are the Twins bad against teams over five hundred? Yeah,
they're really bad. They're thirty seven and fifty one. Damn,

(19:38):
I did not know that. Is there a playoff team
even close to that bad against over five hundred teams?
The Royals are forty three and forty eight, so they
have a losing record again the Twin the White Sox situation.

(19:58):
The d Backs are forty forty three. Jesus Christ, I
did not realize the Twins are thirty seven and fifty
one against teams over five hundred? What are they against

(20:19):
the best teams? So who's who's the top three teams?
It's La Philly, New York, La Philly, New York. So

(20:42):
against the Dodgers, they're one and two. The Twins against
Philly they're two and one, so that evens out to
five hundred. Against the Yankees they're owing six. Jesus Christ,
it's like Baltimore they're own three. Oh my. Well the
other playoff teams, Houston, they're four and two. Nice, they
got Houston's number. Beat Houston for me if you see them.

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Kansas City, Kansas City Royls. The Kansas City Royals are
seven and six. Nice. Third topic, we're looking at quick
hands tag you're out on inside edge when you sort
stuff on their video, they also have this calculation called
fielder tag times and it's just you know, quick hands. Now,

(21:29):
this seems not human. I don't know how they're calculating
this because some of the tag times are negative and
when I clicked those, they didn't make the tag. That's
kind of what was happening there. And then summer zero
and I'll show you like an example, this is a
this is a zero, and that's I think the tag

(21:51):
wasn't made, so it doesn't calculate because that's not it
was a slow tag. But once you do get into
this zero point one Smith to Lux, we do get
into impressive tag ranges. So I'm gonna go from that
point where there's actually like a time of how long
it took to make the tag one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

(22:14):
The top ten quickest tags of the season. The first
five zero point zero two seconds, the next five zero
point zero one. So let's see what we got going
on here. Yep, that makes sense. Correa likes it. So
the throw is just right into the glove, basically catching
on the body. Now this is not there's five faster

(22:38):
than this. I don't really understand how you can be
faster in this. That is very cool and satisfying to watch.
Basically that's the new style. Catch it on his body? Wow?
Is that Correa again? He puts his arm on the
line here to catch it and basically lets him slide
into him. That's awesome. Okay, wow, So Correy is the

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first two. Now we're going the Mets and Iglacius another
hands guy. Wow, So are they counting? Maybe he got
his hand right there? I think they are, and that
is quick. Good call. Jordan Baker Empire Harper retreats. Yep,

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how are there five that are faster than this? This
is again a throw just right on the money and
basically catches it into the lake. Very cool. This is
much different than how they used to tag runners out.
It's a new style. Wooh, that's old school Trey Turner
real mudo or that's not real mudo. But this is
the old school style where like you're not going down

(23:49):
the line and trying to grab it and the shorts
up a sliding into him. That's just a throw that
is right on the money. That is awesome. Turner catches
it and he slides. That's cool. So these next five
are all tied for the fastest tags of this season
zero point zero one seconds. See what we're working with.

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That's an inside Kirk delivers. Well that's not faster than
the last couple. I mean it's perfect, but that's not
better than the last five we just watched. Okay, Trevino
and Volpi, Well the runner's safe there. Okay, this batch

(24:34):
has been disappointing compared to Oh that's a nice pit.
Oh that's awesome. Hell yeah, what a pick. See when
he picks this, he's got to go around Vladdy's body.
He's got to decide. Watch the feet work on this one.
This so much more goes into this. He's got to
pick it, but he's got to get his feet and

(24:55):
he's got to get around Vladdy's body because Vladi doesn't
have to move and a Latti does duck, which is
very kind of him. I mean, he doesn't want to
take a ball to the face. He doesn't. Flatty does
not have to do that, and he should not do that.
That makes it so much easier. This is why you
see them sail throws into the outfield because they have
to go over the batter's head. But either way, the

(25:17):
footwork on the catcher is nice because he's got to
see that that right foot right here. He does a
little grapevine and then shifts his weight and then he's
able to fully come down. Flatty made that very easy
for him. And then this is really nice. He's not
allowed to be in the base path with his feet anymore,
so just as glove can be there, catches it right

(25:37):
there and doesn't even really have the tag. That is
really nice. Okay, another Mets want, Oh that was cool
because that was like an actual tag. Yeah, how is
he out? How is he out? I don't saying that

(26:02):
the glove is on his face as he's catching it.
Right there and his hand's not there yet. I'd love
to see whenever this game was the slow will replace Wow.
It went to replay because he called him safe and
then they overturned it. I'd love to see this. Did
he take his helmet while he was off his body?
Because that is incredibly quick and the last one lucks

(26:27):
oh ha, catches it into de Luca's head. It skips.
That is a zero second tag. Absolutely, one frame it's
in front of his glove, next frame it's in his
glove and he's making the tack crazy. Those are the

(26:53):
quickest tags of the season. This was Jimmy's three things.
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(27:16):
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(27:38):
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