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SABR36 Presentation: Blocking Pitches: Assessing a Catcher's Ability to Save Runs with Bruises (Sean Forman)
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SABR36 Presentation: Blocking Pitches: Assessing a Catcher's Ability to Save Runs with Bruises (Sean Forman)
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| By The SABR Office |
12–12:30PM, Superior-Municipal Room
Blocking Pitches: Assessing a Catcher's Ability to Save Runs with Bruises (S06)
Sean Forman
Catcher defense is notoriously difficult to evaluate. None of the common measures – steals/caught stealing, catching fair/foul popups, catcher ERA, and such – have shown enough consistent value to merit serious sabermetric attention. Sean Forman proposes a new metric in this presentation. Extending the well-known problem of passed balls charged to catchers of knuckleballers, he proposes a measure of “missed pitches” (PB + WP). Statistically accounting for pitcher characteristics and related factors, he compares observed to expected missed pitches for catchers. Finally, play-by-play data are used to estimate the catcher’s runs saved or lost.
Sean Forman (sean-forman@baseball-reference.com) lives in Philadelphia with his wife Sylvia and son Carl. On leave from his job at Saint Joseph's University as a math and computer science professor, he runs Sports Reference, Inc. His all-time favorite player is Rickey Henderson.
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| | Created On: 2006-05-31 |
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SABR36 Presentation: Blocking Pitches: Assessing a Catcher's Ability to Save Runs with Bruises (Sean Forman)
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Page Link: http://www.sabr.org/sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,1773,34,0
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