Fri May 14, 2004, 05:36pm
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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
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Originally posted by DG
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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
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Originally posted by DG
I set up with my nose on the inside corner of the plate with full view of the outside corner of the plate. My head would be above the catcher's head so I can see the outside corner. If the catcher is back I can be back, if he is crowding the plate, I will have to move up with him to see the outside corner. There are times when I can't see the corner, and I do the best I can. This would be when the catcher and batter are crowding the plate and the catcher is setting up inside. In an extreme situation of batter and catcher crowding and catcher setting up inside I might shift to the catcher's opposite shoulder, especially if he moves to his left at TOP. Catcher's moving around after TOP can take strikes away from their pitcher, because if I am set and he moves he may block my view.
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This is a BS excuse. You are punishing a catcher because he moved to catch a pitch? While I have heard this many times, I don't buy it.
Frankly, I don't need to see the ball into the glove to judge where it is -- I've seen the release point, I know if it's a fastball or breaking ball, and I have a pretty good idea where it is crossing the plate and ending up. If I get blocked I use my best judgment to call the pitch -- if that judgment tells me the pitch is a strike, I call it a strike.
This season I've set my initial position and not varied it -- if the catcher moves, I don't, unless my view of the release point is blocked. Then I adjust higher until I can see the release point. Feet stay still. Once in a great while I'll step up if the catcher adjusts up a LOT. Cleaning up the happy feet means that all I have to do is lock in and focus on the timing of that. Not that I'm always perfect there, but it helps me be more consistent.
--Rich
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The very few times I move to the right it's because the batter is crowding the plate, usually with his hands hanging out over the plate, and the catcher just moved inside on me and I can't see anything. I can't see the pitcher or the plate. Now why is it BS to move where I can see the pitch? If I don't move I will be punishing somebody because I am not calling a strike on a pitch I can't see.
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It's BS to say you won't call a pitch a strike if you can't see it -- as if BALL is the default call or something.
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Calling one I can't see a STRIKE is equally undesirable as calling it a ball. It's BS not to setup where you can see some portion of the pitch and make a legitimate call. You admit you adjust, you adjust higher, so why is it BS for me to adjust in a different way?
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