Reply to "Blocks for catchers"

Stats4Gnats10,000+ posts

Originally Posted by jhelbling:

Not sure what the exact rule is - but in baseball - any pitch that hits the dirt is technically a wild pitch. Its not a subjective intrepretation thing in baseball.

Well, that’s true if the pitch causes a runner to advance a base or a batter to reach, and its true in all OBR base baseball, but not in NFHS based baseball. I’m not sure about SB because I’m not familiar with all of their different rules.

Back to a metric for blocks, I’ve managed to extract the data for most of our 31 games last season and I have to admit that I’m really surprised at the results. I track bad pitches during the course of the game but never really noticed how bad things got overall for the catchers.

http://www.infosports.com/scorekeeper/images/cat2.pdf

To say the least, having catchers who bail out the pitchers is much more important than whether or not they can throw a runner out attempting to steal.

10/21/1310:09 AM

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