With the 2019 MLB season now in the books, it’s time to look back at the state of catching in the major leagues. In July 2019, I analyzed the relative impacts of different aspects of a catcher’s skillsets in “Deconstructing the Catcher: Valuating the Five Tools of the Backstop”,
In one of the later sections of the article, “Reconstructing the Catcher”, I explored using each catcher’s skill spectrum scores to created weighted Overall Spectrum Scores. In the weighted overall score, each skill is weighted by their relative impact to team success to create an overall score for the catcher, roughly on a 0 to 100 scale.