The Brewers “catching lab” has done wonders with improving pitch framing. Grandal and Caratini especially saw vast improvement in framing under the Brewer system.
Can you provide an example where the catching lab improved arm strength? That is the glaring “defensive issue” Clarke is dealing with. I can’t think of a case where they took a catcher with that defensive issue and improved it.
Again, I love Wes Clarke and believe he is a major league player. He can catch in an emergency situation of course. I just don’t see him being able to be a primary backup catcher.