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Well, nice work getting a reply. Sounds like they did not actually dive into the code to confirm. Not that they should be expected to, just saying. Now the only question is do I believe Pelletier or the employee, neither of whom sound completely certain.
I can say that I've been playing using the value Pelletier gives for catcher range in 2015: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=639093 The range of 11 runs between a 1 and a 5 is already much smaller than the value I get for the Windows game when plate blocking is on. In a neutral $80 environment if plate blocking is off, I calculate that range to be 4-5 runs just from the x-chart. (Slightly less than suggested by Pelletier's statement in the linked thread that range value is derived equally from the x-chart and plate blocking.)
So in Pelletier's system plate blocking is adding about 6 runs over a full season for a 1 compared to a 5, meaning if the setting is off, a 1 would be overrated by 3 runs and a 5 would be underrated by 3 runs. Small but not nothing, worth about 2 home runs.
Given that the Pelletier comments freeman found were more recent than the 2015 post I've been going by, personally I'm tempted to zero out that column and see what happens.