GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Before every nuance of baseball came to be dissected, isolated and quantified, hitters used to assume that the best, most experienced catchers got the most calls from umpires."When you had Carlton Fisk or Bob Boone back there, you knew those guys were good at getting pitches," Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said.Now that the Information Age has pulled baseball into its orbit, a catcher's ability to frame pitches so that they appear to be strikes has become one of the hottest areas of study.
Yasmani Grandal and the art of stealing strikes
Published February 25, 2015 at 1:35 PM
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