Since pitch-framing metrics grew to become a part of baseball analysis simply greater than a decade in the past, they largely have been a aspect challenge, mentioned along with wins above substitute as a substitute of as a part of it. This 12 months, there’s a change. Fangraphs.com now consists of framing in WAR beginning in 2008, paralleling a transfer Baseball Prospectus already had made in its WARP. With that transfer, sturdy framers comparable to former Cubs catchers Miguel Montero and David Ross and former White Sox catcher Tyler Flowers have obtained WAR boosts, whereas present Cubs catcher Willson Contreras and present Sox catchers James McCann and Welington Castillo are downgrades. Framing metrics are based mostly on