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Originally Posted by DeezNutz
First, I would love to pile on with the Perez love. However...the ideas that he "handles a staff well" or "calls a good game" are hyperbole. There's simply no evidence that any catcher affects a game in this capacity.
What Perez does do, though, is block and throw like a mother****er.
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Royals pitchers did have a lower ERA under him than they did under any other catcher. Now how objective that is? I don't know. But I wouldn't say there is NO evidence.