Good evening and a very warm welcome to you being framed.

Good morning and welcome to episode 205 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast from Baseball

Prospectus.

I am Ben Lindbergh with Sam Miller.

Normally we do the email show on Wednesday but we mentioned this past Wednesday that we

had so many good emails that we might do to this week just to kind of clear out the

backlog a little bit and we have decided to go through with that plan.

So we have collected a bunch of emails from the last I guess the week or maybe even longer

back and we're going to get to them now.

So there were a couple about catcher framing which is something that we've talked about

at least a few times on the show.

I wrote a thing for Grantland this week about catcher framing and that seems to have inspired

a couple of questions.

So the first one is from Andy.

He said Ben I recently read your piece for Grantland about pitch framing and it makes a lot

of sense.

As a pitcher myself nothing makes me happier than when a catcher steals a strike for me.

But with the recent discussion about how bad amps have been and that there needs to be

something done, there have been talks about robot umpires and with that an automatic strike

zone.

My question for you is if baseball were to institute an automatic strike zone, would the

quest for a good pitchframer become worthless as there is no pitch that can be stolen?

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