Bill James on Fielding, Part 7

Hey, if Bill keeps publishing these 2,000-word articles about his revised fielding metric, I'm going to keep swiping the best parts for 200-word blog posts...

Okay, so I don't think anyone's shocked by Ernie Lombardi or Blimp Hayes, or by Yadier Molina. But while I'm well aware of Roy Campanella's stellar reputation, I would not have expected him to rank No. 1 on a list like this.

So now we know what the numbers say, but I wondered what it was actually like to see Campanella in action. To find out, I asked Carl Erskine, who probably threw more pitches to Campy than anyone...

My thanks to the esteemed Carl Erskine, still throwing hard at 88.