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Old 09-26-2009, 09:04 PM   #2 (permalink)
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No statistical analysis suggests that this happens. BP in the book Baseball Between The Numbers has a chapter on the absence of the catcher effect. It was interesting to note today that Varitek sat out the game against the Yankees even though it was a Matsuzaka start. Seems that Victor Martinez's offense was more valuable.

I'm sure some catcher effect exists but there seems to be no reliable way of measuring it.
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Perhaps it's because NFL games are incredibly dull, especially when compared with soccer, while MLB is way, way, way more exciting than locust or grasshopper or whatever that game with the tea is called.

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