Guys come to High Fives league next season and I will show you how much PC effects a game. All season long I took ridicule for being lucky. My starting pitchers are rated 72-69-75-72-73 OVR and I won 109 games with them. I play in a hitter's park and was 2nd or 3rd in the league in ERA as well. I'm not saying it's the only way to build a team but I will tell you it works for me. My theory is that for cetain pitchers it matters more. Like the guy I linked to earlier. He has two good pitches (90/81) and three poor pitches. So if a catcher calls for his good pitches more it makes him a better pitcher. Just makes sense. And yes, I do realize that individual pitches aren't called in this game. But if it effects the success ratio and you are drawing more from two pitches averaging 85 than from three pitches averaging 40, well that's my point.

Here's the other thing... Staff maintenance. More good innings out of one or two pitchers can make a huge difference on things like bullpen fatigue throughout a season. I was able to go half a season with only ten pitchers and never saw a reliever enter the game tired (less than 90%). The first half of the season I used 11 and realized I didn't need that many.

To each his own but high PCs work for me. Do other ways work as well? Sure.
9/30/2010 10:24 PM
Whats your catchers PC rating? how high must it be to sacrafice a bat for it?
10/1/2010 8:54 AM
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He was my favorite catcher. He seemed to make my average staff pitch as a top staff.
10/1/2010 9:20 AM
Posted by badercubed on 10/1/2010 9:21:00 AM (view original):
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He was my favorite catcher. He seemed to make my average staff pitch as a top staff.
Lifetime 4.16 ERA doesn't seem stellar, but it's certainly not bad. He did throw out about 33% of baserunners, though, which is pretty good. Someone said earlier about a correlation between PC and throwing out baserunners. I don't see why PC would be a factor, just AS and ACC.
10/1/2010 9:54 AM
As crazy as it sounds, an ERA below 4.00 got you in the top 25% of the league for his years as a catcher.
10/1/2010 11:09 AM
in my small amount of experience, i'm beginning to think that PC can have a tremendous effect. I used to start a good hitting C that had a 33 PC - the worst in the league. this year i platooned two catchers both with 75+ pc and a few of my pitchers made tremendous strides. take a look at Karim Jose - his ERA went from 4.08 to 3.18

http://www.whatifsports.com/HBD/Pages/Popups/PlayerProfile.aspx?pid=2548606

10/1/2010 12:00 PM (edited)
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