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Originally Posted by Airdrop01
Anyone here other than Conn Chris and me know what catching 75% of your teams innings or more is like, year after year? Didn’t think so. There’s a huge difference between catching 75 games and 120 or 130. 600 innings is nothing like 1000+ innings, especially for a decade or more. I sure as hell couldnt do it that long. That’s my subjective opinion. If I had the will, or the time, I could make up a metric to allegedly quantify it, but that’s unnecessary because that’s the point, these subjective metrics are just opinion based anyway.
I don’t expect you’ll concede the point. I’ve seen more recalcitrance and obstinate refusal to concede the most basic things here I give up. Enjoy yourselves.
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I absolutely believe that stuff (everybody does)...it is why the best hitting catchers are usually moved off of catching. Mauer caught those 1000 innings a number of times. He was a catcher, to protect him and prolong his career they had him play a different position as he got older. That does not mean he was not a catcher. WAR factors this stuff in. He loses value when he is not catching.