I know Adleys stats on throwing guys out. But I'd like to see just who is running on him and who he is throwing out. Might be more guys who wouldn't normally run are trying on him. Cause stats aside he's just not good at throwing.
Do they track pop times and average throw velocity for catchers anywhere publicly? That'd be interesting to see, but think what rate you catch runners is ultimately more meaningful. Pop times and arm strength would go a ways towards isolating the catcher's role from the pitcher's. McCann's rate is also right around league average, but teams run a lot less on him. But I'm not sure "they run more often on him" is really a knock if he's catching guys at a rate that is above the break-even point for base-stealers. I don't consider 75% to be a good rate for runners, you're taking more runs off the board than you're adding around there. Though we would need to look at actual runs scored in the various permutations to calculate exactly what that break-even point is. I usually think of it as 80%, but not sure how accurate that is. He's now at 21%, or 79% successful, which I'd guess is still a tick below break even., meaning Adley is saving more runs that giving up on the aggregate.
Before tonight he was a little worse than league average in attempt rate, but that'll shift to a more than a little after 4 in 8 innings. He was at about 0.95 attempts per 9 innings coming into tonight, will go up to about 1.10, league average is 0.97 per 9. So from 2% more attempts to 13% more attempts.
