Hi George - this isn't so much about rating catcher defense related to
stolen bases and caught stealing, which I presume is a simple enough metric
(CS/CS+SB)... This is a link to the presentation which won The Doug Pappas
Award last year at SABR36 in Seattle. Who knew that this could be measured?

http://www.sabr.org/sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,1773
Blocking Pitches: Assessing a Catcher's Ability to Save Runs with Bruises
By Sean Forman (sean-forman@...)

(Click on the title to see the PowerPoint presentation)

Rod Nelson
Research Services Manager
www.sabr.org

-----Original Message-----
From: NorCalSABR@yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of George Jansen
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:33 PM
To: nor cal sabr; 19th century SABR
Subject: [NorCalSABR] catcher's arms?

If anyone's got a neat little formula for figuring
this out, boy, that would be cool.