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Effectively Wild Episode 2030: Deadline Dilemmas and Needs

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Error Rate of Pitchers

First baseman gets a lot of putouts that are just they just have to catch the ball right so it's hard to make an error on that and if it's like a tough catch then often that'll be scored as an error on the person who threw it right. Second catchers 0.7% are errors largely because putouts strikeouts are scored as putouts for catchers Right. At the top pitchers 77.2% of their errors are throwing errors.

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