Andrew McCutchen’s fielding should improve

Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty ImagesIf you use advanced metrics in order to evaluate defense, Andrew McCutchen was, and has been for a while now, bad with the glove.

It’s very difficult to write that sentence, but it’s true. There is almost no advanced fielding metric that has liked him over the past three years. Here are his totals since 2016:

What was amazing is that looking at his player card on Baseball Prospectus, you’d find that there is only one season where he has a positive FRAA number. That is amazing. The problem I have is that a lot of those numbers, other than the overall negative view I take with any fielding numbers, came from his negative views in center field while he was…