Pitching Coach Location

[Four Seam]

NFHS and ASA. At some fields, the dugout openings and fence situations are such that the pitching coaches cannot set up close enough to their catchers to call pitches. Some pitching coaches will leave the dugout and set up outside of the screen between the backstop and the dugout and call pitches through the screen. Do you allow this?

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Four Seam

NFHS and ASA. At some fields, the dugout openings and fence situations are such that the pitching coaches cannot set up close enough to their catchers to call pitches. Some pitching coaches will leave the dugout and set up outside of the screen between the backstop and the dugout and call pitches through the screen. Do you allow this?

Not all fields are configured the same, so I'm thinking you are referring to the fence which extends from the backstop to the dugout.

As long as the coach is in DBT, that's fine by me as long as it is is just outside the dugout. No big deal unless s/he starts running at the mouth about pitches, then it's in the dugout and I don't really care if the coach cannot communicate the signals from there, not my problem.

[qcumpire]

I'm with Mike. Let him be, as long as he doesn't get too far from the dugout or behind the plate. But, the first word I hear from him...He's back in the dugout.