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Seems to me growing up in the 70's that every team had at least one "jackrabbit."  Stealing bases was a norm for most teams.  Backstops were a requirement...and it seems to me that most squads had a good one.

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You know with the possibility of the automated strike zone, I wonder how much of a premium we will still have on defensive first catchers?  Pitch framing would be irrelevant.   As we all know, sometimes kids are drafted as catchers and they get moved off the position because an organization gets concerned about defensive warts.  But with stolen bases down as it is, as @Rico pointed out, if you take pitch framing out of it, maybe we will see more hit-first catchers.  Teams may no longer tolerate the .230 hitting catcher if he doesn’t have defense to hang his hat on.  

PS  My favorite era for baseball would be like 1975-1992 or so.  How about the catchers of the 1970s?  Johnny Bench, Carlton Fisk, Ted Simmons.  Studs. 

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