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Old Mon Aug 17, 2009, 07:12pm
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It's fun. Only during dead ball, and I make sure pitcher is looking at me before I throw one in the air. If not, I'll throw a one-hopper, especially if the catcher is not paying attention. Then pitcher can be getting ready along with catcher.

This doesn't seem worthy of a pet peeve. Perhaps you have unresolved issues from your childhood.
I would hope you are only throwing a ball out when one is not in play, and you probably should not be throwing a ball in the dirt whether on purpose or accident.

Not only does it look very bad to do that, it looks even worse when it gets by the pitcher.
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Old Mon Aug 17, 2009, 07:20pm
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Done appropriately, that is when the catcher is otherwise occupied, it does speed up the game. When the catcher is not busy, I hand the new ball to him.

If you can't throw a ball 60 feet, then don't try.
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It most cases it does no harm to throw the pitcher a new ball while the catcher is running to the fence to retrieve an errant throw. For foul balls back to the fence, we let the on deck hitters get those. I have seen guys underhand balls to the pitcher if they can't throw them overhand. This is something I go over when I speak to the catcher/pitcher when they are warming up before the first pitch, so the pitcher knows to pay attention if his catcher is running down a ball.
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Old Mon Aug 17, 2009, 11:15pm
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I used to

I used to throw the ball out whenever a new one was needed. No problems for a few years, then one weekend tourney I turned into the catcher from Major Leage 2 and threw 5 to F8, and a couple to F6 and F4. So rather than quoting the Victoria Secret catalog I just let the catcher throw it back when he is available. I'll still thow one out if the F2 is going to be occupied for any period of time.
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Old Tue Aug 18, 2009, 12:13am
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I played a lot of baseball, majored in Physical Education, wrote a term paper on the fundamentals of pitching, and can throw a baseball (and a football) long and straight. That being said, I hand the ball to the catcher whenever F2 isn't busy doing something else. I can throw it to the pitcher, but ocassionally it gets away from me, and that doesn't look good. I too like my on deck hitters shagging fouls to the backstop so the catcher can throw the ball to his pitcher.
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Old Tue Aug 18, 2009, 12:33am
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Maybe it's just me, but I have no trouble throwing it one foot wide of glove hand side of the pitcher. I'll even pick up the catcher's mask/helmet if the ball is dead, or no runners on. Anything to speed up the game.

Now, it you can't make a quality toss, then don't. If you can't bend over easily to help your catcher out, fine, don't rip your drawers. But why bag on me because I throw straight, and can do more situps than you? And why is it such a big deal, for gosh sakes?
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[...] I hand the ball to the catcher whenever F2 isn't busy doing something else. I can throw it to the pitcher, but ocassionally it gets away from me, and that doesn't look good. I too like my on deck hitters shagging fouls to the backstop so the catcher can throw the ball to his pitcher.
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