This morning I was going through Stephen Strasburg‘s statistics on baseball-reference.com and I saw some numbers that really surprised me. When you dig deep into his numbers you will notice Strasburg performs much better when Wilson Ramos or Jhonatan Solano is catching for him compared to when Kurt Suzuki is his catcher.
As you can review the numbers for yourself I did want to point out the strikeout to walk ratio. When pitching to Ramos or Solano in 2013 it is 8.2k’s for every 1.0 walks. When pitching to Suzuki it is 2.0k’s for every 1 walk.
| 2013 | G | IP | ER | ERA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | SB | CS | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS |
| Wilson Ramos | 4 | 25 | 4 | 1.44 | 89 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 0.202 | 0.26 | 0.337 | 0.597 |
| Jhonatan Solano | 2 | 15 | 4 | 2.40 | 52 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 0.192 | 0.222 | 0.231 | 0.453 |
| Kurt Suzuki | 6 | 34.1 | 13 | 3.41 | 127 | 15 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 32 | 0.236 | 0.324 | 0.346 | 0.671 |
| Career | G | IP | ER | ERA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | SB | CS | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS |
| Jesus Flores | 17 | 94.1 | 38 | 3.63 | 350 | 40 | 84 | 16 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 31 | 127 | 0.240 | 0.303 | 0.397 | 0.7 |
| Sandy Leon | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1.29 | 24 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0.167 | 0.167 | 0.333 | 0.5 |
| Wil Nieves | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1.50 | 21 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0.143 | 0.182 | 0.333 | 0.515 |
| Wilson Ramos | 12 | 69 | 12 | 1.57 | 248 | 19 | 52 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 64 | 0.210 | 0.245 | 0.274 | 0.519 |
| Ivan Rodriguez | 12 | 68 | 21 | 2.78 | 250 | 21 | 54 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 94 | 0.216 | 0.267 | 0.308 | 0.575 |
| Jhonatan Solano | 3 | 21 | 4 | 1.71 | 77 | 4 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 0.208 | 0.238 | 0.247 | 0.484 |
| Kurt Suzuki | 11 | 60.1 | 26 | 3.88 | 226 | 30 | 52 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 29 | 59 | 0.230 | 0.318 | 0.354 | 0.672 |
