01-25-2005, 08:18 PM
Piazza gets more heat than he deserves as a catcher when he came up he had his troubles to be sure, but while his arm remains average his glovework behind the plate is adequate. No he's not Bench or Rodriguez back there, but he is serviceable and does not hurt his team back there.
He ranks 39th on the Career highest batting averages. He was having high avgs before 1998 when the pitching really went bad with the expansion. That is one of the things that convinces me that he would have put up numbers like this in others eras. According to BP, Piazza is first all-time among catchers in Equivalent Average (EqA) at .325 No one else is even at .310
He ranks 39th on the Career highest batting averages. He was having high avgs before 1998 when the pitching really went bad with the expansion. That is one of the things that convinces me that he would have put up numbers like this in others eras. According to BP, Piazza is first all-time among catchers in Equivalent Average (EqA) at .325 No one else is even at .310
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