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Out of zone plays made

Out of zone plays made, known by the acronym OOZ, is a baseball statistic used to measure a baseball player's performance on defense.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

The sabermetrics statistic is also a component other baseball statistics, including the Zone Rating and Revised Zone Rating (RZR) measures of a baseball player's defensive performance. It was developed by sports statistician John Dewan in the 1980s, and then enhanced by him in 2006.^[2]^[6]

OOZ reflects the number of plays a fielder makes on balls that were hit outside his "zone".^[6]^[7] A player's "zone", for purposes of the definition, is considered those parts of the field in which on average a fielder is able to convert half of his chances into outs.^[7]

References

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^ ^a ^b "RZR | FanGraphs Sabermetrics Library". Fangraphs. January 25, 2011. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
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^ ^a ^b Sean Smith (April 2, 2007). "What is Zone Rating?". Hardball Times. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Bryan Tsao; Carolina Bolado; Joe Distelheim (2007). The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008. ACTA Publications. ISBN 978-0-87946-341-0. Retrieved April 16, 2011.