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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 84: Jose Molina and What the Quantification of Catcher Framing Might Mean

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss the finding that Jose Molina’s receiving was worth 50 runs and talk about what it’s implications for baseball might be.

Transcript

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0:00.0

you know we're talking with hosea millena new catcher for the raise you know

0:03.1

and again no disrespect to the guys that were here last year but

0:06.3

i mean you're known for being a great receiver of the baseball framing

0:09.4

pitches

0:10.5

uh... you know and i it's a very fine art and you have to know that you know what

0:14.3

what a certain umpires like and you obviously know the american league umpires

0:18.2

tell me a little bit about about that art of of framing pitches and and being

0:22.4

a great receiver how important is that in the game of baseball

0:26.1

well it is used you know the for the first thing i mean it you find the ball to

0:30.3

to make every picture look like a strike you know uh...

0:33.0

the empires going to tell you what what the pitch it is uh... if it's a stride

0:37.2

ball but at the same time

0:39.0

uh... as a catcher you have to make try to make every picture look like a

0:42.9

strike if you go

0:44.7

uh... that way

0:46.4

he he he will make everybody's here you know a lot of empires not like the

0:50.4

pressure of close pictures and so next efficient they may give it to you

0:54.8

and not saying they all like that but there's some like that

0:58.8

plus you have to uh...

1:00.4

make sure that your picture hit the spot you know if you don't hit the spot

1:04.2

then

1:06.7

you it nothing matters pretty much you know uh...

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