At some point, you kinda have to ask: is Freddie Freeman playing distracted? Sunday was the second game on that road trip in which a Freeman error may have changed the overcome of the contest.
If this were an average fielder we were talking about, that would be one thing, but that hasn’t really been the case. His error counts over the past 4 full seasons are 6 (2011), 12, 10, 5 (2014). As of yesterday, he’s already at 3 with 1/9th of the season concluded… on pace for twenty-seven errors.
Regardless of whether this is a small sample situation or a mathematical anomaly, he’ll now have to go the next 144 games without making as many as 3 more errors to match the paces of 2013-14.