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Originally Posted by Dave Hensley
The FED ruling is pretty consistent with OBR interpretation, as well. If a backswing interferes with a catcher's attempt to make a play, it's interference and the batter is out, runners return. If the backswing hits the catcher before he's secured the pitch and prevents him from even starting a play, it's weak interference and the runner is sent back, no out recorded. In the FED ruling you're citing, the catcher is making a play so the interference is penalized with an out.
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I guess I was confusing the issue with weak interference. I see catchers set up real close by the way they catch the ball, just inches from the swinging bat. I see the batter's follow through turning his shoulders with the bat still in his hands and thought the catcher was just as responsible as the batter for this type of incidental contact/trainwreck/tangle-untangle situation.