Talk:Top ten catchers of all-time/@comment-ASwaff-2006051781536

I also disagree on the importance of a good defensive catcher. You&quot;ve got to be able to help out your pitchers by framing pitches well, and Piazza is one of the worst in the game at that. You&quot;ve got to be able to call a good game. That&quot;s why the Astros love Ausmus so much - he calls one of the best games of any active catcher. You&quot;ve got to be able to throw out baserunners. That where Javy Lopez always killed the Braves. He brought a great bat, but it he didn&quot;t have Andruw Jones backing up all his overthrows in center, do you know how many runners he would have allowed to get to third on a routine steal? Defense is incredibly important at catcher, and Pudge has put up numbers later in his career worthy of putting him higher than you did. Piazza should be fifth.