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Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date

#65846	05/28/2019 5:23:44 pm	Jan 21st, 2041
wuggla Joined: 05/10/2013 Posts: 1059 Colorado Springs Vultures VI.28	A new statistics. In game pitcher catches player at 1B.

#65847	05/28/2019 5:26:31 pm	Jan 21st, 2041
AssumedPseudonym Joined: 10/26/2016 Posts: 1130 Deerfield Beach Rats V.7	I’d love to see a pickoff stat added to the game, myself. It’d probably also require a new mechanic, though. (I’d sort of like to see it being a way to put Arm to use on a pitcher, but that’s me.)

#65850	05/28/2019 6:01:39 pm	Jan 22nd, 2041
wuggla Joined: 05/10/2013 Posts: 1059 Colorado Springs Vultures VI.28	It would be a Fielding attempt. Punch out. Caught stealing. Unless he over throughs then it would be an error.

#65856	05/29/2019 5:31:11 am	Jan 22nd, 2041
hurstdm Joined: 01/18/2017 Posts: 576 Murfreesboro Moo Cows VI.5	+1, even if it's just more color in the play by play report.

#65885	05/29/2019 11:00:12 pm	Feb 5th, 2041
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Is there a real statistic in baseball that is used to track this? Pitcher Caught Stealing? CS percent for pitchers? Steve

#65917	05/30/2019 4:05:14 pm	Feb 17th, 2041
hurstdm Joined: 01/18/2017 Posts: 576 Murfreesboro Moo Cows VI.5	Wikipedia: "Pickoff records are imprecise, as it is not an official MLB statistic, and historical box scores typically did not distinguish between a pickoff and a caught stealing." Even if it's not a coded stat, you might include it for fun in play-by-play color commentary once in a while when there'd normally be a caught stealing by the catcher? Adds variety and fun.

#65922	05/30/2019 6:15:09 pm	Feb 19th, 2041
wuggla Joined: 05/10/2013 Posts: 1059 Colorado Springs Vultures VI.28	Exactly just new and rare in game flavor text. 15 arm pick off. Counts as fielding and Punch out.