[NoOne]

meh... so little the human eye likely cannot tell due to so much volatility and other factors being supremely more important. it's a small piece of the pie.

like i said, i'd still avoid the horribly defensive rated catchers unless he's ~mike trout offensive ability type player. i stick to ~1/2 scale or better on catching ability and arm... i'll let the arm dip a bit more than ability as far as forgiveness. more forgiving with better offense but i won't let either dip too low or both be lower than i prefer.

if no striking bats exist, i go for cheapest that meets these requirements... with best contact/power combo. i then look at how much different the range gets and whether it's worth it to get one of the more expensive ones.

~15-25M and he better be a .280+ hitter consistently and 15-20hr in 130g - that guy can reach 80-90+rbi and 80+ runs consitently in my league (fewer HR than default, you should expect 2-3 more HR with defualt and more rs/rbi along with those). i may have a little less income than default too... that's a league with ~125-130M payrolls average. some teams would pay that catcher ~30m in my league. obviously, i pass at that amount for any guy that only plays 130/162games.

i.e. a 50/100 vs a 130/100 isn't going to turn a crap pitcher into a better pitcher. they will still be a crap pitcher. will it shave a fraction of ???? off? probably somewhere.

anecdotal:

i just had a stretch of amazingly rated pitchers not doing so well as i'd expect. i think the catcher is 90/100 ability during that time. they had some good years, but not consistent like i normally get from similarly rated SP. no small sample of comparison... i have reasonable expectations compared to most.

i go decades with ~1/2 scale catchers and most other SP have had much better results with similar ratings. not to say bad stretchec don't occur... but the rate of occurence is similar to the eye... you'd need a spreadsheet to know the differences between a 1/2scale catcher and a top-shelf ability catcher.

the correlation has to be extremely weak. it definitely exists, because they say it does, but nonetheless it's a very small piece of the pie that is easily outweighed by a plethora of other factors.