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Like I mentioned BW, I’m just going by the times I’ve seen him play against the Cardinals. Obviously someone who has watched him behind HP for the majority of a season has a better perspective, but I can recall a handful of times during Cardinal/Cubs games when the situation strongly suggested a possible SB attempt or starting the baserunner and I experienced some apprehension to do so with Contreras behind HP. This was based on seeing him catch Redbird baserunners in the act of SB attempts in prior games. Bottom line was that he frightened be a little bit…Haha! In any event, even though I don’t know how they formulate the SABR ratings, it makes sense to me that he places well above average defensively. It’s also odd that there’s no info on ’22. Maybe they were too busy trying to figure out how to formulate the new utility IF’er ratings…

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