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I understand not an attack.. and neither was my comments to you. Its a pleasure talking this over with upper level umps. I work a crap load of 1man because I'm in a rural area. Even though JV is definately lower level ball .. it can be quite good, smart, and fast softball and to work it alone often requires hustle and prioritizing.
Regarding watching the runners:
Lets say a runner is at 1B on a Righty, I'll cant slighty moving my left foot forward so I can see in my peripheral vision and I would see a gross leaving early.. but the microsecond leaving early I would catch at a BU I doubt I would see. 3b I cant do much about it unless a lefty batter. Occassionally I do change my focus to watch a runner I think I caught leaving early, but I wasnt positive.. ie they seem to have a propensity to try to push it. In that case rather than watch the pitch the whole way.. I more focus on the runner and watch where the pitch is caught.. I think the call is close enough and its not often I do that.
As you know though, there is no "perfect" way to call 1 man. So I do do my best on those type of issues..
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Regarding your sit:
Fed has A for 1 man as to the right of the circle slightly towards 1b and and B as near 2nd.
With men on and to the outfield I like to move to A on the opposite side of the circle... I'll call it "A.2" From there I can go to where ever I need to and still see everything, including the plate touch.. although as I said it is not the high priority.
A tag up on a caught ball IS a high priority. I agree with you there.
You felt your best view of leaving early on a tag up was holding? First would be the catch then the look. That can be done from either spot .. the "A.2" or holding without loss of view point.
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