Among the Class AA catchers with 4,000-plus framing opportunities, Mejía was middling at 18th out of 29 qualifiers. In terms of blocking runs and throwing runs, Mejía ranks in the bottom third.

Pitch-framing depends on many factors involving the pitcher, the catcher, the umpire and the game situation. This is part one in our series on the art of the game: catchers and pitch-framing.

Framing pitches is not part of the lesson plan. “They don’t know how to physically catch the ball yet consistently, and when I say consistently, I mean 99.8 per cent of the time,” Huckaby says.

GOODYEAR, Arizona – Throughout the first two weeks of spring training, Cincinnati Reds catchers spent a lot of time working on pitch-framing drills.

Servais notes that it was different when he and longtime Mariners catcher Dan Wilson were playing. Wilson now serves as a minor-league coordinator and is overseeing the pitch-framing drills.

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According to FanGraphs’ catcher framing metric, he ranks fourth in the Majors with 2.0 framing runs, which calculates how many strikes above average are called on non-strikes.

Cardinals catcher Willson Contreras practices framing a pitch on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, ... They discussed, drill by drill and data by data, if that was possible.

One of the game’s nuances is getting extra treatment this spring in Mariners’ camp: pitch framing by catchers. And it’s not just because new manager Scott Servais is a former catcher.