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I'm in agreement with the school of thought that the way to improve the situation with umpire calls is to find/develop better catchers. I'm not sure I buy into the argument that Jesus Montero is still developing at catcher. He's currently 23 years old and he's played the position his entire professional career, and presumably before that as well. Now, it may be possible that he wasn't taught the right way. One has to acknowledge that possibility. But it seems far more likely to me that he simply possesses limited aptitude for the position.
Now that the cat's out of the bag on the value of pitch framing, I wonder how long it will remain a market inefficiency?