Well, case closed then. I have no problem deferring to the likes of the FO's who value this. Especially when they have much better and much more information available to them than we do. Why did Theo and Jed stick with Castillo for three years? recall that last year there was a lot of reported interest between our FO and Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who has never been considered to be a good receiver...it's actually fair to question if Theo & Jed really do put as much of an emphasis on it as some of the other teams have outwardly shown to (PIT, NYY, SD, TB, MIL, HOU) also, to answer your question, Castillo ranks near the top in blocking pitches, so all his dramatic movements behind the plate do have some worth; this gets factored into his WAR on FG, while framing doesn't, so i'm of the opinion that paints too positive a picture of him