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re: Whoever started coaching catchers on 1 knee
Posted on 5/8/24 at 8:13 am to tigerfoot
Posted on 5/8/24 at 8:13 am to tigerfoot
What about the way our catchers give the target, then they drop their mitt to the ground, and then bring it back up fast to catch the ball?
What is the purpose of doing that?
What is the purpose of doing that?
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Posted on 5/8/24 at 8:18 am to doubleb
quote:
What about the way our catchers give the target, then they drop their mitt to the ground, and then bring it back up fast to catch the ball?
What is the purpose of doing that?
All the cool guys in MLB are doing it, so it must be the best way. All the catchers in the history of baseball from 1870 - 2019 were neanderthals who knew nothing.
Same with those ignorant middle infielders who used to play at double play depth with a runner on first base for all of those years instead of shifting around the diamond so that a double play is now impossible.
#analytics
Posted on 5/8/24 at 8:24 am to doubleb
quote:
What about the way our catchers give the target, then they drop their mitt to the ground, and then bring it back up fast to catch the ball?
What is the purpose of doing that?
To steal more strikes at the bottom of the zone.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 8:30 am to doubleb
quote:1 us to catch the ball moving mitt into zone versus setting mitt as target then moving it off target. Umps can see come better and must call zone versus showing mitt movement towards leaving the zone.
and then bring it back up fast to catch the ball? What is the purpose of doing that?
Posted on 5/8/24 at 8:46 am to doubleb
quote:
What about the way our catchers give the target, then they drop their mitt to the ground, and then bring it back up fast to catch the ball?
What is the purpose of doing that?
Supposedly to frame low pitches better. I'm not sure if anyone has studied the effectiveness of it but the theory makes sense
Top tier NCAA-MLB pitchers don't need to see a target as they throw. Once a pitch is called, they know where their spot is.
Neal having his throwing hand vulnerable all the time was a way bigger problem than knee down.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:04 am to doubleb
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What about the way our catchers give the target, then they drop their mitt to the ground, and then bring it back up fast to catch the ball?
What is the purpose of doing that?
I do know the answer to this.
It presents a constantly moving target to get more strikes called by umpires. It gives a short amount of more time to allow a catcher to frame borderline pitches and coerce umps to call them strikes. If a catcher frames during the pitcher's motion and the ball comes in off target, but still a strike, the ump may think the pitcher missed his spot and call it a ball.
It's all to get over on the umpire calling balls and strikes.
There's a good YouTube video out there somewhere that breaks it down. I watched it a couple years ago when I noticed mlb catchers doing this.
This post was edited on 5/8/24 at 9:11 am
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