Billy Burns a top defensive center fielder

Posted by Jason Wojciechowski on November 3, 2014 at 8:42 PM

This counts as old, but Baseball America ran lists per minor league level of the top defensive center fielders as measured by, basically, range factor. Billy Burns does very well, ranking behind only Washington's Michael Taylor among Double-A players and behind just Taylor and the Rockies' David Dahl overall.

Baseball Prospectus calculates Fielding Runs Above Average for minor leaguers and rated Burns at +8.5 in Midland, so the adjustments that go into FRAA don't make us think any less of Burns than his range factor does.