View from the catwalk: Holding runners is hard

This one is an Adam Sanford Special, written by John Trupin, not Adam Sanford. With Andre Ethier’s retirement, there are no more active players who have been involved in trades with Antonio Perez. Who is Antonio Perez, you ask? Well, for one, he came to the Rays along with Lou Piniella. And he’s been in a lot of other trades too, with some awful good players.

Juan Toribio wrote about Tyler Glasnow’s struggles holding runners, and how the Rays plan to work on fixing them.

Speaking of:

Russell Carleton has written a lot about the shift. Probably most interestingly, about how pitchers have tended to walk more batters when the defense is shifted behind them. I’ve always been a little bit skeptical…