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Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin
Bill James has openly spoke out against the overvaluation of framing and using DRS as a stat to measure catchers.
He has specifically says it unfairly takes away from the value of someone like Salvador Perez, who is one of the better defensive catchers for his time.
Good enough for me.
Hopefully the HOF voters listen when the time comes.
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Yes. It is particularly funny that the guy that started that Twitter thread uses advanced stats to take a shot at Perez and then takes a shot at one of the 2-3 people most responsible for advanced stats existing.