you might have those hitting platoons backwards, Hitchcock is begging for you to let him face some righties

To be fair, Duran(591 innings) normally gets less innings and his CERA ws .06 lower than Hitchcock's(850 innings) the season before.   And the season before that was:

Ruben Duran	C	102	77	646.0	4	21	68	.309	0	3.553
Felix Hitchcock	C	132	85	808.0	7	31	72	.431	0	3.408

Posted by pjfoster13 on 4/2/2014 2:23:00 PM (view original):
you might have those hitting platoons backwards, Hitchcock is begging for you to let him face some righties

Actually, that's what I was doing.   Duran sat pine because Hitchcock was hitting well enough. 

there's so many past threads about pitch-calling.. inarguably the most controversial rating in the game.

That's why I said depends on what you mean by "everyone" and "as much as".


The entire game is built on trade-offs(in good worlds anyway).   Do you take the no glove/good stick or gold glove/mediocre stick guy?   And a lot depends on what everyone else in the world is doing. 

ehhh, 20 plus plays is ok I guess. Still not sure if it's worth sacrificing OPS, as sacrificing a big chunk of OPS in one player can affect the rest of the lineup in the sense that it limits your team's overall number of at-bats and therefore can limit the production of your good players.

gold glove/mediocre stick is obv >>> no glove/good stick, but I was mainly referencing people's willingness to play gold glove/AA stick simply for the defense, that's probably silly

Deathinahole grinding his teeth somewhere...

I did some crude calculations, and .015 average points does equal about 85 extra hits over a 5,700 at bat season, as Bripat pointed out. I looked at the average hitting stats in my leagues for the past few seasons, and teams tend to average about 1.89 hits per run. So 85 hits translates to around 45 extra runs in a season, or .28 ERA points over 1,450 innings pitched.

Again, this was a very crude calculation of a non-random sample, but it does seem significant. If there is a .015 opposing average difference between, say a 50pc catcher and a 80 PC catcher, that comes out to around .09-.10 ERA points per 10 points of PC, which is close to the calculation of .12 that Miket23 came up with.

It would probably be slightly more meaningful if we were given catcher's OAVG instead of catcher's ERA as a defensive statistic.  Too many factors can distort ERA.

There is a lot of noise surrounding either stat. 

I think I've decided that 55-55-80 is lost worse that 80-80-55!  Gimme' the arm strength.

Really? That surprises me. Arm strength only matters for stolen bases, right? I guess it could make a difference if you're in a division with a lot of speedy teams. Do you know what the difference is in number of SBs allowed between a 55 AS catcher and an 80 AS catcher?

I think MikeT did some research on that some time ago.  IIRC, the findings were that high arm strength was a significant deterrent to stolen base attempts.  Don't remember the numbers.

Yeah, AS suppresses attempts while AA determines the number caught.