Why does lucroy paint his nails

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When I wear white nails, I do it for a mod look that instantly makes my skin tone appear sunnier yes, I learned this trick from Kim Kardashian. My go-to shade: Essie Marshmallow —it's a creamy off-white that's not too stark. The Jonathan Lucroy contract extension is a bigger move than many realize, thanks to advances in measuring catchers' defensive contributions.

The baseball community has been trying to understand the defensive value of catchers for some time now. Pitchers, coaches, and front-office types often espouse the value that a backstop brings to the table in running a pitching staff, but it's not something that we've been able to quantify.

Without the ability to measure the value of the non-obvious things catchers did or didn't accomplish, opinions were split: some felt that it was unquantifiable and that those who thought of game-calling as more than a myth were wasting time, and others believed we just lacked the data to put our proverbial finger on it. There's still a long way to go to nail down the exact value of what catchers do behind the plate besides the obvious -- throwing out runners, fielding pop-ups and the like -- but the sabermetric community is making significant progress.

Woolner, ever the forward-thinker, left the door open for better data, though:. There is no statistical evidence for a large game-calling ability, but that doesn't preclude that [sic] a small ability. There are other places to look for a catcher's influence beyond the game-calling ability looked for in this study.

A catcher might be able to impact the "clutch" performance of the pitcher, helping him focus in high leverage situations. A catcher who senses what his pitcher is throwing well might be more efficient in calling pitches, reducing the pitch count per batter, and thus allowing the starter to go deeper into the game and preserving the bullpen. Nothing in this study precludes any of the possibilities from being true, and this is a promising line for future investigation. That "promising line for future investigation" is what researchers like Dan Turkenkopf, Mike Fast, Bojan Koprivica, and Max Marchi have worked on over the last few years.

Reply to bhacking. My understanding is that this is already happening. I'd have to cite a competing site for where I read it, and there are ethics regarding competitive site citing. Reply to Richie. The idea is that the "problem" that "causes" framing effects is a base neurological problem. The human eye can't see exactly where a ball going 90ish MPH crosses a small area home plate and resolve that in three dimensions.

The human brain just can't resolve images that quickly. The umpire then uses other clues as to what happened. If the catcher's glove is moving away from the plate, the brain naturally uses that information to say "I guess it was tailing away from the plate.

This isn't something that's done consciously. All of this takes place much too fast to involve conscious thought. Reply to pizzacutter. Aren't catchers doing this very thing resolving an image in three dimensions? Isn't that what framing is? Reply to therealn0d. Well, a catcher doesn't need the same level of precision in mentally tracking that pitch that an umpire does to do his job.

All the catcher really has to do is get his glove in front of the ball so that it doesn't fly to the backstop. The umpire has to be able to tell whether -- in mid-flight -- it ended up in an imaginary box and often when the pitcher is specifically throwing a pitch that is on the very edge of that imaginary line.

If the catcher's glove is a two inches to the right, it doesn't much matter. If the umpire is missing calls by two inches, he'll be given a coupon for the nearest optometrist. For a catcher, it's much more about how he positions his body when he receives the ball.

The catcher is closer to the pitch than the umpire obviously not by much. Obviously, if pitch framing is a thing, and we acknowledge it is, the catcher would be doing far more than simply getting his glove in front of the ball.

Let's play the substitution game here I'll grant you that catchers have the advantage of knowing the specifics of the pitch coming, but I'm not buying the argument that umpires can't process the information fast enough to know the differences. Maybe the vantage point is disadvantageous. Just to be clear, I'm not trying to be a jerk or simply contrarian.

I think what we are really talking about here is that what the eye doesn't "catch" the mind fills in the blanks. Well, that sounds a reasonable argument, but perhaps supports my original take more - if the umpire is 'guessing' based on glove position, he'll be taking other pieces of information into account as well, such as 'oh, this is lucroy, he must be framing my ass, I'll call it a ball'.

There is an outer limit to how aggressively a catcher can frame a pitch even if he has the skill to do it. Once he goes too far, most umps will know he is a framer and adjust. The sweet spot of being a good framer but not too good is shrinking every season. Reply to markpadden. I'm not understanding how these results suggest that pitching to a good framer might lead to "a few extra home runs.

Is this inherently bad for some reason? I'm just not seeing this as sinister; what am I missing? Reply to ggdowd. The regression coefficient was pointing upward, though not significant.

Is it just during night games? Is it only with certain catchers? Etc, etc Very often the placement of the catcher's hand between the legs is the reason for the problem.

There are a couple things to look for here One, it could be because the catcher is actually pointing his fingers backwards, almost flush with the bottom of his backside. The pitchers may not actually be seeing anything between the catcher's legs.

Make sure the catcher's fingers are pointed down while he is giving signs Two, the catcher could be holding his legs too close together, causing the pinky and index finger to blend with the catcher's pants. Keeping the knees apart by about inches should fix this. Three, the catchers may be holding the sign too low.