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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
There is something to this personal catcher business, I have become convinced. And it's not just the latest example of Sonny Gray and Austin Romine clicking, getting Gray out of his doldrums. (Thank goodness for the DH in the AL, where a guy like Gary Sanchez can still contribute if he is odd-man out in the situation.)
There have been quite a number of such pairings in baseball history, as these articles will attest:
https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseb...ine-1.18408639
http://seamheads.com/blog/2018/04/24...-combinations/
It's not always the situation where the more experienced catcher is favored. Some of it seems to be personality as well, guys thinking the same things at the same time rather than having different opinions. In a pressure situation, that must be a big plus. |
More interesting is when three future FOFers are in the rotation and only one pops up on the list. For example, Glavine and Javy Lopez have almost 5000 innings together. So where are Smoltz and Maddox? The 'favorite catcher' list should not be players such as Javy Lopez who were all-stars and near all-stars. Rather they are the catchers who were deemed necessary by a Maddox or a Smoltz despite losing a huge amount of offense from the catcher spot in the lineup.
That is the list I'd like to see.