A tale of two catchers

Posted by Dan Turkenkopf - 15/03/08 at 08:03:00 am

At least a couple of people have asked for some more detail about Doug Mirabelli, Tim Wakefield and blocking pitches. To no one’s surprise I’m sure, Mirabelli looks a lot better when you isolate out Wakefield. Basically he’s a completely different catcher.

Take all this with a grain of salt because the sample sizes are so small, but here’s how Mirabelli breaks down by pitcher:

Wakefield: 27 opportunities, 16 misses, 41% block percentage
Romero: 10 opportunities, 0 misses, 100% block percentage
Snyder: 6 opportunities, 2 misses, 66% block percentage
Matsuzaka: 4 opportunities, 0 misses, 100% block percentage
Pineiro: 4 opportunities, 2 misses, 50% block percentage
Lopez: 3 opportunities, 1 miss, 66% block percentage
Hansack: 2 opportunities, 0 misses, 100% block percentage
Papelbon: 2 opportunities, 0 misses, 100% block percentage
Okajima: 2 opportunities, 0 misses, 100% block percentage
Timlin: 1 opportunity, 0 misses, 100% block percentage
Delcarmen:1 opportunity, 0 misses, 100% block percentage
Tavarez: 1 opportunity, 0 misses, 100% block percentage
Donnelly: 1 opportunity, 1 miss, 0% block percentage

Total non-Wakefield pitchers: 37 opportunities, 6 misses, 84% block percentage

March 15, 2008 | In CBP, Defense, PITCHf/x |

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