Of 827 pitchers who appeared in a game in 2019, several Milwaukee Brewers appear in the top 100 as benefitting from good pitch framing, per Baseball Prospectus.



A lot of that has to do with Yasmani Grandal and his above-average pitch framing making 124 starts behind the plate for the Brewers in 2019, but there’s also certain types of pitchers whose styles mean a larger degree of their fate is tied to framing.



The White Sox added two of them this weekend.



Per Baseball Prospectus, Gio González had the 45th most runs prevented because of good framing of any pitcher in the majors in 2019. There are only four pitchers who threw fewer than his 87 1/3 innings who appear higher than González on the list, and three of them (Junior Guerra, Josh Hader and Freddy Peralta) were his teammates on the Brewers, also working with Grandal. Dallas Keuchel — pitching to some guy named Tyler Flowers in Atlanta — had the 29th most runs prevented by...