Best article you'll read this year

[Illinest]

Baseball Prospectus | Spinning Yarn: Removing the Mask

This is an analysis of the catcher's effect on ball/strike calls and it includes video - particularly of our own Ryan Doumit who is neck and neck with Jorge Posada for worst in the league in getting strikes called.

Note that the author has made a correlation between head motion and the umpire's call.

Does this change your opinion about whose option to pick up? (Snyder is slightly above average according to this article)

For me I think it does. I'll go with Snyder and McKenry.

 

[element1286]

Wow, great stuff, thanks for the link!

Definitely makes me think twice about Ramon Hernandez and Gerald Laird as potential free agent acquisitions, if they don't pick up an option.

Edit: This should be correctable, not that Doumit would turn into Jose Molina, but I would think it is something he can improve upon. I wonder if this type of stuff is new information for teams.