Before the season started I complained that I didn’t want the Royals to sign Martín Maldonado. I wanted them to give a chance to one of their guys in AAA. After watching Martín catch entirely too much for the last two weeks I am really glad the Royals did it. Shortly after the Royals signed Maldonado FanGraphs updated their WAR stat to account for pitcher framing. This gave Maldonado a huge value boost in their system while costing Salvador Perez dearly. This was something I had anticipatet - I wrote about it at the time - but I did not have nearly enough of an understanding of how much more fun it would be to watch him catch.
Hok Talk: I rescind my complaints about the Maldonado signing
