Friday, October 16, 2009
Catcher-managers
Posted by Chris JaffeHere's something that doesn't happen every day: a newspaper article quotes me. It's on catcher-managers by Marc Carig in the Journal-Star. We had an email exchange on the subject earlier this week. The piece focuses on why catchers so frequently become managers.
One thing I mentioned in my email that doesn't quite relate to his piece (and hence was sensibly left out of the article) is that pitchers rarely become catchers.
History instructor by day, statnerd by night, Chris Jaffe leads one of the most exciting double lives imaginable; with the exception of every other double life possible to imagine. Despite his lack of comic-book-hero-worthiness, Chris enjoys farting around with this stuff. His new book, Evaluating Baseball's Managers is available for order. Chris welcomes responses to his articles via e-mail.
“...that pitchers rarely become catchers.”
I assume you mean here “become managers.”