A couple of weeks ago I put something together over at VEB about catcher defense in the NL at the All-Star break and was invited to extend my analysis to all major league catchers over here. As we all know, the impact of catcher defense is very difficult to quantify. Even fangraphs has a difficult time with it, since it uses UZR to evaluate defense at every other position on the field. Just looking at its list of qualifying catchers, only Victor Martinez and Yadier Molina ostensibly receive any value from their defense whatsoever – and that comes from the time they’ve each spent at first base.
Beyond The Boxscore
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