Extra time to contemplate all things baseball during this pandemic-forced stoppage has led me to some conclusions about the KC Royals, one of which I share with you here.
I don’t care if Salvador Perez isn’t a very good pitch framer. I just don’t.
There it is. Jump on any reliable search engine, keystroke in “Perez” and “pitch framing,” then sit back and watch the data flow in. By any contemporary metric, there is no escaping the hard fact that Perez is a poor framer.
Take, for example, baseball-reference.com’s deliciously unpronounceable “RszC.” That’s the useful statistics-rich site’s measure of what some describe the “art of framing.