You may have heard the term "pitch framing" bandied about lately. In this guest blog, we hope to make the concept behind pitch framing and its implementation more familiar to you. How does one figure ...
Chicago Cubs catcher Miguel Amaya deserves some recognition for his incredible effort on a pitch framing attempt on Wednesday. Amaya caught part of his Cubs’ 3-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers and ...
Because Major League Baseball hasn't quite given into the inevitable robot umpires that will someday (soon) oversee our national pastime, teams all around the sport are still doing their best to ...
The Toronto Blue Jays are off to an 11-9 start this season. Former All-Star catcher Alejandro Kirk is not off to a hot start at the plate with a .192/.295/.212 slash line, but he's done some of his ...
Chicago Cubs President Jed Hoyer can remember “attaboy” moments watching catcher Willson Contreras work behind the plate last season. Contreras has been one of the best offensive catchers in baseball ...
Houston — A couple of them were the result of being crossed up by the pitcher — he was expecting a breaking ball or off-speed pitch and he got a fastball. Not much a catcher can do about that, except ...
The numbers will never tell the entire story of Willson Contreras, who signed with the Cubs as a teenager out of Venezuela, learned how to channel his emotions during parts of eight seasons in the ...
For the second time this month, an Orioles player has been hit in the head by a pitch. After Heston Kjerstad was hit in the helmet July 12 against the New York Yankees, Orioles catcher James McCann on ...