Narrow window. I tossed something obscure out there yesterday to see if anyone could get the one obvious and one hidden thing that made it interesting.
Varitek had three seasons with over 100 allowed. Of course those Boston teams were known for now worrying about controlling the running game.
For his career he caught 23% (league average 30%) but I think it is fair to say you had folks testing him that wouldn't have been running otherwise.
I wonder how poor a catcher would have to be at suppressing the running game before it encouraged others teams to run enough that it was actually damaging?
would five percent do it? Ten?
I think folks have a skewed view on how much impact a catcher has on run prevention. Poor framing and sub-optimal pitch calling isn't going to result in six runs.
That of course is assuming Sisco did any worse in those things than Holaday would have.