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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, May 09, 2022Josh VanMeter was forced to catch for the first time in 12 years. It didn’t go well
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Posted: May 09, 2022 at 12:13 AM | 31 comment(s)
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1. salvomania Posted: May 09, 2022 at 09:39 AM (#6075849)that line amused me
I don't know how you would capture that in something like WAR, but it does seem meaningful.
It really depends on the scarcity. If there are a lot of guys who can do it, and hit to a 70 OPS+ (or whatever the requirement is for a backup C) it's hard, but not valuable. Scarcity is really what drives WAR, not difficulty.
^^^
this article wasn't not written by a bot.
I saw all of Lamb's 7 major league innings at catcher, and wow, the stats and analytics are most likely underselling how incredibly bad he was. What makes it even better is that he wasn't strictly an emergency catcher. This was a planned thing. The club gave him a couple of one-inning trials to close out some losses early in the season, then decided he was good enough to start a game at catcher a week later. The wreckage from that start -- 5 innings, 2-0 SB/CS, 1 PB, 3 WP -- was enough for the club to finally scrap the idea entirely because as bad as that was, he looked much worse.
I ended up catching most of 3 years. Because everyone else he tried looked GREAT for a game or two before something horrific happened to them and/or their soul.
Catching isn't that hard if you can do it, but 90% of people can't do it.
(sorry for the pedantry - just pointing it out because Jonathan Lucroy is a solid defender + I know BLB knew which one it was)
As a catcher, Fick was a perfectly fine backup.
As a person, he was pretty awful. So he probably made some people cry, just not Frank.
Can confirm. Blowers has spent more time talking about playing catcher than actually playing catcher.
EDIT:
Years and years ago I wrote a song about this incident. It was from the POV of a Mariners fan who was dreading the possibility that the M's would trade for Lecroy.
Lecroy is probably only the second-most obscure ballplayer I've written a song about. I also wrote one called "John Wasdin Blues" about a pot dealer who spends his evening listening to the Rangers lose on the radio.
I see what you did there! Well done.
wow. I just got that.
He had no intention of throwing to Sakata with a runner on.
Yes, I also noticed this.
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