This may have already been asked a dozen times...but exactly how important is pitch calling for a catcher?  What kind of difference would you see in your pitching staff between a catcher with pitch calling of 75 and one with 100?

Is the pitch calling rating worth giving enough weight to that you suffer in offensive categories?

This guy shouldn't need any help with pitch call or anything related to HBD.    He already knows everything!!!

There are many threads on the subject.  Just do a search for them (tab on top of the page).  What you'll find is people have very different opinions on how much it matters.

MikeT23 is my favorite person on this site.

Posted by burnsy483 on 11/11/2010 10:12:00 AM (view original):
There are many threads on the subject.  Just do a search for them (tab on top of the page).  What you'll find is people have very different opinions on how much it matters.

+1

a lot of opinions out there.  Looking at my experience here is some stats from two C's on my team who platooned together over the course of 7 seasons:

Season                    C1 PC                C1 ERA             C1 Inn        C2 PC                C2 ERA          C2 Inn     
10                              60                         4.86                    769              85                         4.82               667
11                              61                         3.94                    859              85                         4.56               606
12                              61                         4.20                    916              85                         3.82               552
13                              61                         4.10                    597              85                         4.12               588
14                              61                         3.69                    941              85                         3.67               523
15                              61                         3.13                    868              85                         4.23               594
16                              61                         4.44                    813              85                         4.17               563
Totals                        61                         4.01                  5763             85                         4.20              4093


Statistically speaking the 61 rated PC was better than the 85 PC over the course of the 7 seasons.  Some of that has to do with the fact that he was on fire in season 15.  Despite these stats, I do believe that a high PC player is valuable and next season I'll have two completely different C's, one with a PC of 55 and one with a PC of 83, so we'll see how big of a difference those two have on the pitching staff.

Posted by seank07 on 11/11/2010 11:14:00 AM (view original):
MikeT23 is my favorite person on this site.

Thats just because you're new here.  You'll see.