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Old 07-23-2022, 08:01 PM
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A catcher's ability to throw out someone stealing a base also has an awful lot to do with the pitcher, which a catcher can't control or really affect. The ability of many pitchers to be able to hold runners close, or the speed of their delivery and pitch they throw has probably as much, if maybe not even more, to do with the ability to throw out a someone stealing a base, than just the strength of a catcher's arm and how fast they can throw. And along with that is the ability of a pitcher to pitch from the stretch and disguise their motion so that a base runner is delayed as long as possible from being able to tell when the pitcher actually goes into their motion, and is not just getting ready to throw over to pick off the base runner.

Obviously, some catcher's had such incredible arm strength that the speed at which they could throw allowed them to throw out more runners stealing bases than other catchers. But again, a lot more of that may be on the pitcher, and the athleticism and ability of the person covering the base to react and make the tag in a timely manner as well.

There are a lot of people who put down pitchers and claim they get too much credit for wins, saying they owe a lot of it to their defensive backing and the batting prowess of their teammates. Shouldn't the same be said about catcher's as well then and their ability to throw out base runners? They are most definitely not the only player involved in throwing out someone trying to steal a base, and maybe not even the most important after all.
Very true...really, any of the catcher metrics are somewhat pitcher dependent, including pitch framing, pitch blocking, and even game calling.

The extreme example if Doug Mirabelli. Despite being a backup, he led the league in passed balls two years in a row. That off-season, he was traded...but then re-acquired a month into the following season and even got a state police escort to the ballpark the day he was traded.

He was knuckelballer Tim Wakefield's personal catcher for several years.
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The Mets have had good starting pitching this year with two catchers I would charitably describe as AAAA players. And people like Scherzer, and Walker, and Bassitt, experienced veterans, have done just fine with them. Has really made
me wonder how important all the pitch calling, framing, etc. really is. And they are very weak hitters as well.

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