I have a catcher that hit 330+ the last 2 seasons. I acquired him in a trade he is good in every catcher category except he is a 45 pitch caller... how much will the 45 pc rating hurt my team

You remember the Marcellus rape scene from Pulp fiction?

hahaha that bad?????

As per MikeT - Pitch Calling - lowers your staff ERA by .12 for every 10 points in PC over the course of a season.

So if you are starting a .45 pitch caller over a .75 pitch caller you are giving up an extra .36 ERA. That's somewhere in the neighborhood of 55-60 runs in a season.

Depends on a bunch of other stuff too. Pitching, defense, ballpark. I took a team to the WS with a 42 PC catcher, he was top three in OPS on the team so I needed his bat in the lineup. That team was tops in the world in all major pitching categories that season, 3.26 ERA, a full half a run better than the next closest team.

So if I'd started a 72 pitch caller would I have given up over 100 runs less than the next best team? Seems hard to believe that could happen.

Bottom line, I had other things going in my favor and his bat was worth not worrying about the PC.

In a different park I might change my mind. I've got a team in Yankee Stadium right now, my C is second on the team in OPS and has 99 power but again, 42 PC. And it seems like every game is a shootout, 10-8. Why isn't he my DH? Because I've got a DH who's also got 99 power.

The numbers I came up with were roughly 4 real-life years ago based on roughly 80 seasons of data spread across my various teams. Park, defense, pitching, competition, etc, etc, was obviously very different for many comparisons. I only used my catchers and only compared them to other catchers on the same team in the same year. I forget the required innings played but it was not insignificant. IOW, I wasn't comparing a 1200 inning catcher to a 100 inning catcher.

All that said, it was not perfect. Sometimes the 78 PC catcher had a worse cERA than the 52 PC catcher.

But it's a good guideline.