Clubhouse Confidential sits down with Baseball Prospectus’ Ben Lindbergh to examine the best pitch framing catchers and then talks to ex-catcher Dave Valle about the art of pitch-framing.

Brian Kenny examines Stan Musial’s contribution to the game of baseball on and off the field.

I really love Clubhouse Confidential on MLB Network. I don’t love the way MLB classifies their programming for DVRs. Tip to MLB Network: the first time your show appears it’s “New”, after that it’s a “Repeat”. Since they repeat the shows multiple times in each day, I can’t record shows without completely filling up my DVR. Since my wife also likes to record some stuff, I’m screwed if I don’t have time to watch a show the day it’s aired.

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Bill James on the Hall of Fame candidates.

Summary Bonds: “you have to honor him, but I’d make him wait”; Clemens: “an obvious Hall of Famer”; Piazza: “sure”; Sosa: “I probably wouldn’t”; Biggio: “sure”; Schilling: “probably above the line”; Lofton: “probably”

Later in the show: Raines: “absolutely”; Walker: “not high on my list”; Trammell: “a Hall of Famer”; B. Williams: “probably not”; E. Martinez: “I think so”; Morris: “I wouldn’t vote for him”; D. Murphy: “I wouldn’t vote for him”; ...