Jonathan Lucroy

[Big Buds]

Yeah, not a bad day at the office!

[DaddyCajun]

Saw it on the news, how sweet was that! He has 17 this season now, wish his whole team was doing more to help out.

[Dad04]

He is one bomb behind the MLB leaders Brian McCann and JP Arencibia

[NewsCopy]

Former Louisiana Ragin’ Cajun Jonathan Lucroy has emerged as one of the top catchers in all of baseball this season, while being a fixture in the Milwaukee Brewers’ batting order..

The 27-year old Eustis, Florida native, now in his fourth season in Major League Baseball, ranks fourth among MLB catchers in Batting average (.287), third in home runs (17), and first in RBI’s (66), while also ranking second in slugging percentage (.485).

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[Frenchie35]

A little inside story about Lucroy's abilities behind the plate.........


Jonathan Lucroy and Yadier MolinaIcon SMIMolina and Lucroy add far more value behind the plate than most people realize.


Two of the most valuable players in the National League aren't among the leading candidates for the MVP award. They haven't driven in the most runs or tallied the highest WAR and, despite possessing some of the softest hands in the game, haven't made any Web Gems. Instead, these catchers, Yadier Molina and Jonathan Lucroy, have mastered the art of making the quietest of contributions -- their finest plays, by design, go unnoticed. These silent superstars frame pitches; that is, they make borderline pitches appear better than they are. They do this by receiving pitches with a steady hand and, perhaps, discreetly pulling them into the strike zone. Their many small contributions, one strike at a time, add up to immense gains for their teams.

To find out how often each catcher has performed the magical transmutation of ball into strike, I relied on the work of Jon Roegele. He found that while the rulebook strike zone is a rectangle, the actual strike zone called by umpires is better approximated by an ellipse and that the position of this ellipse depends on whether the hitter is batting from the left or right side of the plate. Using his algorithm, we can determine which pitches are expected to be called strikes and compare our expectations to the actual calls on the field.

[DaddyCajun]

Wow nice article, sounds like Robe, a real scholar of the game.

[NewsCopy]

MILWAUKEE -- For his work off the field, mostly in support of children's charities and military initiatives, catcher Jonathan Lucroy is the Brewers' nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award.

Tuesday is Roberto Clemente Day throughout Major League Baseball, a day instituted in 2002 on the 30th anniversary of his passing to keep alive Clemente's spirit of giving. Voting runs from Sept. 17 through Oct. 6 at chevybaseball.com as fans help decide which of those 30 club winners will receive this prestigious recognition

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[wcd35]

Here's the link: http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story...ch-framing-mlb

[wcd35]

The full article breaks down how good of a pitch framer he is and how valuable added strikes are to a team. Lucroy leads the league by a wide margin in added strikes from pitch framing.

[CajunAmos]

Here's the link: http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story...ch-framing-mlb

That link seems to go to ESPN, where you have to be an insider to view it. I found this article on the beyondtheboxscore.com website.

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/201...ct-in-baseball

[wcd35]

That link seems to go to ESPN, where you have to be an insider to view it. I found this article on the beyondtheboxscore.com website.

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/201...ct-in-baseball

The one I posted was the article in the OP. The article you have is similar.

Also, this one breaks down the framing even further: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/ar...rticleid=21615

[Boomer]

Hope he is teaching the Cajuns this---but why tell anybody??