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The announcement was made this afternoon that Piazza did not receive the necessary 75 percent of votes to get elected into Cooperstown. In a deep, talented class swarming with several deserving talents, nobody made the cut because of rampant PED suspicion. Somehow, someway, the best offensive catcher in history did not receive a "yes" vote from every writer tasked with filling out a ballot.
It's an indictment of a flawed system controlled by a group of gatekeepers with a morphed perception of reality. Going off the numbers, there shouldn't be any argument about Piazza's Hall of Fame credentials. The backstop retired with a. Through his year career, he amassed home runs, 1, RBI and a. He currently leads all catchers in home runs, OPS and slugging percentage. Where he had averaged 5.
He declined to 4. For all of the sturm und drang , he played just one inning there, that in the second-to-last game of the season. While the experiment was abandoned, allowing him to return to catching, a hairline fracture in his left hand cost him time in Despite playing half his games in Petco Park, he hit.
While teams expressed interest in his services in , he announced his retirement in May. Piazza has a strong case as the best-hitting catcher of all time. His homers as a catcher the other 31 came as a DH, first baseman or pinch-hitter are a record. Among such players with at least 5, plate appearances, his. He led NL catchers in errors four times in his first 10 full seasons, and in passed balls twice, with plenty of other top five finishes in both categories.
Most glaring was his inability to control the running game. He yielded more stolen bases than any catcher in the league a whopping 10 times, allowing more than in eight separate seasons; meanwhile, he threw out just 23 percent of would-be base thieves, seven percentage points below the league average during that time. Prorated to 1, innings nine-inning games per year , Carter allowed steals with 63 kills per year, Piazza steals with 42 kills per year.
Roughly speaking, a caught stealing is twice as valuable in the wrong direction More recent research suggests that Piazza was very good at some of the less easily measured aspects of catching. Obviously, not all of the difference in a given batter-pitcher outcome is owed to the catcher due to things like what happens on balls in play including those that the catcher fields , but over a large enough sample size in this type of study, the trends became clear.
Teams and pitchers did better at preventing runs with certain catchers behind the plate than without them, whether that meant on days when the backups played, or when either player had moved on to a new team. In that study, Piazza cracked the top five, just ahead of Carlton Fisk, the only one among the top 10 already enshrined in Cooperstown:. For the — period combined, Piazza ranked as the ninth-best catcher, above average by a value of 78 runs.
Marchi further observed that only in ——when Piazza caught a combined games due to injury and the first base experiment—was he below average. The rankings:. That information is part of the overall body of defensive work that rates Piazza as 61 runs below average behind the plate, including 15 runs below average via the more sophisticated DRS in his final four years of catching — His I was prepared to describe it in disgusting living color.
But two or three times my editors at The New York Times would not allow it.
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