That would just reinforce one of the original points of this thing. There's obv a whole lot more that goes into CERA than just Pitch Calling.

I will add my little bit to this: As last season in Capra began I did a bit of looking back at previous teams. I didn’t look at all 46 of my seasons but 30 or 35 of them. I looked only at PC and cERA over those seasons, comparing my two most frequently used catchers. I have generally considered PC as an important attribute and have very rarely played a C with a PC below 60. I only considered seasons where there was at least a 10 pt difference in PC between my two C’s, figuring anything closer just generated noise. It worked out that in something like 50% of the seasons the higher PC catcher had the lower cERA; in 25% the difference was negligible, and in 25% the lower PC catcher performed better. On the whole, adding up all seasons, a difference of 10 pts worked out to something like .08 runs in cERA, which was close to Mike’s long term study. In any one season there was a 50% chance that there was no PC advantage, but over time the difference existed.

Flip a coin three times and you get little accurate data. Flip it 103 times and the data is relevant.

I had a 79 PC “main” C last season….but the study made me more comfort going with a guy with 67 as my vL platoon. He hit something like .339/.945 vL with a cERA of 3.60. My main guy had a 3.40 cERA.

it’s just one season, but in this case my vL guy hit way more well enough than to cover the .2 cERA difference.

I am a believer in catcher arm strength, btw.

My pitchers last season were

Posted by tlowster on 9/29/2021 6:39:00 PM (view original):
I probably won't use a premium infielder as a C. Not because it's a bad idea, but because typically a C is easier to find than an infielder. In fact, I think I've only ever had one team that had an abundance of infielders and when I do, I usually just throw him out in CF. It's nice to know that if im short on C's, but over on infielders, I can likely throw one at C and be okay, but it will likely be a rare occurrence. Nonetheless, as stated above, it's nice to know and thank you for posting.

Yeah, like I said this was a bit of a roster crunch season where I had enough high end infielders that I wanted to get in the lineup and I'd already thrown one in CF and one in RF. 90% of the time, you'd want to play someone like Savage at 3B. But it made sense for me this season.