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Wasn't there some study or other that *did* find there to be a difference in how guys called games and/or framed pitches? IIRC the effect was largely neutralized once teams discovered that there was an effect (I guess meaning, they saw the numbers and decided to formally teach their catchers instead of hoping they'd just pick it up or something).
Maybe, too, this is one of those things that, like, every catcher who's worn the "tools of ignorance" for the requisite 10,000 hours or whatever can just do at a more or less equal level to someone else, but if you threw a guy who was completely new to it he'd be horrible at it. I think of Geno Petralli's unique issues catching Charlie Hough in the late 80s, only applied to this skill as well.
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