quote:I am curious about whether scouts and coaches have any finer tools to evaluate catchers' catch and throw skills beyond the woefully inadequate PB's and CS%.
ABSOLUTLY! I never looked at the CS and the PB as woefully inadequate because I never looked at them as that all important. Rob, maybe we need to get back into the discussions of "how important are high school stats"? and I say they are unimportant --- College coaches and professional scouts do not use stats to evaluate a player's TOOLS.
It alsmost seems as if you want to put a note beside a stolen base that says *not the catcher's fault, the pitch was a curveball in the dirt?
quote:Other positions have measures that are pretty darn objective and meaningful.
Rob Kremer,
Would you explain what those "meaningful measuments" are? The only statistical defensive measurements made on position players are errors, putouts, and assist; all of which are also applied to catchers.
Fungo