I'm way late to this party, but thought you'd be curious. I caught a YT video about two weeks or so before the end of this season that had the topic of pitch framing. During it, the presenter laid out a graph with a wide range of catchers, from the absolute worst framers in the league to the absolute best. And Adley?
Adley was a zero, on that stat scale, which was based on how many runs that each catcher had gained or lost his team via stealing or costing strikes through framing (because not only is there a neutral result where the ump didn't buy your ball to strike frame job, there's actually a negative result where the pitcher threw an actual strike and because of the way you received it, it got called a ball).
So no, he's definitely not helping us through pitch framing.
Twenty-one starts at first in Norfolk.
Seven assists.
Six errors.
I'm just going by those raw numbers but they worry me.
Can he corral the wild Gunnar throws or is Gunnar going to have a half dozen more throwing errors?
Folks act like anyone can play "good enough" defense at first in the majors. They can't.
Why do you think that? I don't think we've seen enough of him at 1B to say either way, but my guess is if he can play a mediocre 3B he should be able to play a passable 1B with some work in the offseason and ST. It sounds like Elias is thinking of him as a 1B now, so I guess we'll find out in ST...
So how will he learn how to hit major league breaking pitches in AAA?? He has absolutely dominated AAA at a young age; there is nothing offensively he can work on at AAA. He needs to learn how to hit major league pitchers, and the only way he'll do that is get consistent at-bats at the ML level.
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