Let's have a thread about strike zones!

[briancurtin]

I don't think I've seen legit framing below the college level - be it movement of the arm or a hard flick of the wrist, whatever some dad is teaching at the time. College catchers have framing on the corners figured out, but low spots sometimes go unframed and caught downwards.

The frame job is done the instant the ball hits the glove. It's all in how the act of how the catch is made and is done after that (unless you are fooled by this type of thing). Holding it there for any length of time, to me, is a sign that the catcher himself doesn't think it's a strike.