Slate understands sabermetrics

Great, great article on Slate explaining the sabermetric view of Derek Jeter's defense. Tango is quoted, as is his amazing Hardball Times study on Jeter's fielding (which I think can be found in the printed book only).

I'm not sure why there are so few mainstream articles discussing sabermetric findings ... my theory is that old-school sportswriters aren't interested in objective knowledge, so these articles have to come from outside. And there aren't that many "outside" writers about sports.