I often will refer to Alfonso Soriano as an above-average defensive player. There is a certain segment of people who kick their cat whenever I say that, and they generally proceed to bang their spoons on their highchairs and talk about how bad he looks going back on baseballs and how all he has is the greatest arm of any left fielder in baseball. (They don't put it quite that way, but whatever.)

I wrote an entire essay about the topic for Wrigley Season Ticket 2008, and really don't feel like writing about it again, but I often talk about defensive statistics and the sort of people who tend to kick their cats when I say that don't seem to care about defensive stats anyways. So, graphs!

It's a heat map - blue is the hottest, red is the coldest. (I know, I know - I'm working on making my own color palettes, but suffice it to say it's a ways down on the list of things I'm trying to do.)