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Jordy Mercer’s Impressive Defensive Feat in 2014

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Mark Simon from ESPN found a very impressive accomplishment from Jordy Mercer during the 2014 season, as shown in his tweet below.

Mercer had a 1.6 WAR on defense in 2014 according to Baseball-Reference. That is up from the 0.2 dWAR he put up during the 2013 season. He made 11 errors this season, nine of them fielding related, one on a catch and one was a throwing error that obviously wasn’t a play at first base. His fielding percentage(.982) ranked fourth in the NL, he was second in assists and his Total Zone Runs(21) led all shortstops in the majors. All this basically means is that Mercer showed solid improvements over 2013 at shortstop, a year in which he was basically average.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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