We talked about the euphemism they have in baseball, and they say Chris Stewart is one

of the better ones at framing pitches.

And framing is the euphemism we're trying to fool the Empire, trying to take a pitch

just off the corner and make it look like it was a strike.

Jose Molina, the catcher for Tampa Bay, they tell me is absolutely the best at framing,

and of course we'll see Tampa Bay when they come here on the night.

The first pitch to Stewart, he takes low off the play ball one, one and all.

They are so, what would be the word?

So studious about the activities of the Major League player.

They even have statistics on framing.

And when I said that Jose Molina is the best at it, they say he has framed 13 points

for something for strikes, a percentage.

Good morning and welcome to episode 257 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, Ben, you know what I just learned about 10 seconds

ago?

What?

Jonathan Papalbons fastball is three miles an hour slower than it was two years ago.

Yeah, I think I wrote something about that recently.

Yeah, kind of scary.

He's having such a good year.

Yeah.

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