I've been down the old homestead, the naked rider gallops through his head, and all

the moon isn't full, he still feels the cold, still feels the cold.

Hello and welcome to episode 1169 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fan Graphs

presented by our Patreon supporters, I'm Ben Linberg of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan

of Fan Graphs and a Jeff.

Hi, Ryan Bronze, I'd be in my place second to base.

I saw that.

So I just want to know where I'm just going right to the point here, Ryan Bronze came up

the third baseman, he was a third baseman.

Okay, 2007, Ryan Bronze, third baseman, much younger, 10 years younger, 11 years younger,

I guess, 945.1 Major League innings at third base, third base considered roughly equivalent

defensive position to second base in terms of degree of difficulty, negative 32 defensive

runs saved.

Oh, you don't love DRS, not the stat of choice for you.

Well, then let's turn to ultimate zone rating, which puts him at negative 28.5 runs as a

third baseman.

But if you like a UCR one full season, basically, yeah, a little less, a little less than a full

season, 945.

I think standard would be like, yeah, I don't know, 121300.

So Ryan Bronze, UCR 150, that's a estimate of UCR for 150 games, like a full season estimate,

negative 42.8 runs as a defensive third baseman.

Ryan Bronze, I didn't pull up the lead a bird, but I remember writing about this a long

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