[Mick]

I'm curious to see how Jung Hoo Lee progresses. He's a bit above average as a hitter right now (104 OPS+) and ahead of last year's pace, he's ahead of both his walk and strikeout pace from a year ago, he's sixth in the league in scoring runs, half his base hits are doubles (he's 7th in NL in doubles), his on base percentage (.333) is comfortably ahead of league on base percentage (.312), he didn't have any errors this year or last. His range factor was considerably better than league average for CF's last year (as you imply), but it's way down this year...I think you can chalk that up to the fact he's played in just six games.

re: range figures…. Could it be that playing 5 of 6 games in the small yards at Cincinnati and Houston impacted his numbers?  (Strictly a guess on my part since I do not know how the range figure is calculated.).

Could be. Also thought that SF pitchers are more prone to throwing ground balls...and they are, slightly. According to FanGraphs, SF pitchers are 10th of 30 MLB teams in groundball percentage (46.9%). 

Range factor is calculated two ways, by the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of innings or games. Ramos is slightly below league average range factor and Yaz is WAY below league average range factor. Matos is above when in RF, but WAY below in CF. So...not sure. Too few games for an accurate assessment, I suppose.

[Mick]

I'm curious to see how Jung Hoo Lee progresses. He's a bit above average as a hitter right now (104 OPS+) and ahead of last year's pace, he's ahead of both his walk and strikeout pace from a year ago, he's sixth in the league in scoring runs, half his base hits are doubles (he's 7th in NL in doubles), his on base percentage (.333) is comfortably ahead of league on base percentage (.312), he didn't have any errors this year or last. His range factor was considerably better than league average for CF's last year (as you imply), but it's way down this year...I think you can chalk that up to the fact he's played in just six games.

re: range figures…. Could it be that playing 5 of 6 games in the small yards at Cincinnati and Houston impacted his numbers?  (Strictly a guess on my part since I do not know how the range figure is calculated.).

Could be. Also thought that SF pitchers are more prone to throwing ground balls...and they are, slightly. According to FanGraphs, SF pitchers are 10th of 30 MLB teams in groundball percentage (46.9%). 

Range factor is calculated two ways, by the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of innings or games. Ramos is slightly below league average range factor and Yaz is WAY below league average range factor. Matos is above when in RF, but WAY below in CF. So...not sure. Too few games for an accurate assessment, I suppose.