A look at how many Net Runs Over Expected catchers are generating through their ABS challenges.
Sal Perez is showing framing is now obsolete as umpires should not be fooled, but corrected instead.
Edgar Quero is showing that a excess of challenges can just leave you without them in situations where you actually need them to help your team out.
And Adley Rutschman is showing if you only challenge with 2 strikes you can pump up a high run value with only a couple challenges.
Data pulled from Baseball Savant, Player Images pulled from the official MLB Headshots. Plot generated with RStudio.
NinjaGhost42
That’s my captain
LukeBron
At least Quero will have a career as an umpire when he retires
Ted_Dongelman
The dunce cap was unexpected but I enjoy it.
DietrichDoesDamage
Salvador Perez doing this so late into his career? Could you imagine if we had ABS from the start, would it have given him a claim to some HOF catcher chatter?
Boomhauer_007
Will Smith is like chaos catcher with challenges, no surprise he’s in the bottom right group.
Whenever I see watch them play he’s either making a smart challenge on a close pitch late in the game and getting it right or challenging the very first pitch of the game (thing that actually happened) and getting it wrong
nokiabrickphone1998
Surprised to see Cal so high already – he had some pretty bad challenges at the very beginning of the year. Seems like he has fully gotten up to speed now
onhalfaheart
The only way for Quero to remove that dunce cap is to keep at it
99% of pitch challengers stop right before they hit the big run value
reptheevt
Is it just me or did OP give Cal googly eyes?
IMissM0dernBaseball
Adley my efficiency king
IllustriousComplex6
Not a Kansas City fan but expect nothing less from Salvador Perez
Pterocacti
is this like a maps without new zealand thing except it’s charts without cleveland
manofconviction
Yainer Diaz not even on the chart cause he won’t challenge cause he has absolutely zero idea what the zone is
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**dunce** this man
A look at how many Net Runs Over Expected catchers are generating through their ABS challenges.
Sal Perez is showing framing is now obsolete as umpires should not be fooled, but corrected instead.
Edgar Quero is showing that a excess of challenges can just leave you without them in situations where you actually need them to help your team out.
And Adley Rutschman is showing if you only challenge with 2 strikes you can pump up a high run value with only a couple challenges.
Data pulled from Baseball Savant, Player Images pulled from the official MLB Headshots. Plot generated with RStudio.
That’s my captain
At least Quero will have a career as an umpire when he retires
The dunce cap was unexpected but I enjoy it.
Salvador Perez doing this so late into his career? Could you imagine if we had ABS from the start, would it have given him a claim to some HOF catcher chatter?
Will Smith is like chaos catcher with challenges, no surprise he’s in the bottom right group.
Whenever I see watch them play he’s either making a smart challenge on a close pitch late in the game and getting it right or challenging the very first pitch of the game (thing that actually happened) and getting it wrong
Surprised to see Cal so high already – he had some pretty bad challenges at the very beginning of the year. Seems like he has fully gotten up to speed now
The only way for Quero to remove that dunce cap is to keep at it
99% of pitch challengers stop right before they hit the big run value
Is it just me or did OP give Cal googly eyes?
Adley my efficiency king
Not a Kansas City fan but expect nothing less from Salvador Perez
is this like a maps without new zealand thing except it’s charts without cleveland
Yainer Diaz not even on the chart cause he won’t challenge cause he has absolutely zero idea what the zone is