24-06-2018 17:11 via ocregister.com

Dodgers’ catching tandem giving them little offensive help recently

NEW YORK – As the 2018 season approached, the Dodgers were proud to call the catching tandem of Yasmani Grandal and Austin Barnes “elite.”
Right now, they’re only half right.
Grandal and Barnes continue to rank in the upper echelon of catchers defensively, particularly in the area of pitch framing – the skill most prized by new-age evaluators like the Dodgers’ front office. But offensively, the duo has been far from elite.
“The production is certainly do
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