JT Realmuto Catching Drills 

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I like your videos! They help my sons learn the game so much. We watch as a family. We appreciate you big time!

Dang, I wish I had your channel when I was coaching my kid's teams 20+ years ago. What a tool for today's youth coaches.

This is part of the game. I hope they never go to the robo strike zone. I actually went to an Independent League game where they were testing robo strike zone. Robo ump took something away. Part of the fun of going to the game is ‘you missed that blue’! If they go to robo ump, I hope they go for the option to allow for appeals for x number of ball strike calls.

Really great breakdown! Thanks!

Yea I pitched from little league to highschool and at age 13 I started to play travel baseball for coaches that played pro or college. But Realmuto is a catcher that young catchers should pay attention to if they want to play at high levels. Because as a pitcher if you can frame pitches and make them look like strikes well then your going to make that umpire behind the plate think that it's strike. But when I started playing travel baseball I realized that there is a lot more to it than just sitting behind the plate and catching the ball. Because Realmuto is really good at throwing runners out at bases and I wish that Matty would have done a video on how Realmuto sets his feet to throw at second base for example. But not only can he throw runners out at bases but he has the ability to call the game but he also has to tell the infielders like first base and third base on when to cut the ball off or let it go through. So there is much more responsibility that a catcher has behind the plate

Nice video

Realmuto brings the low pitches up to middle-middle. Is that ideal, or is that showing the movement of the glove too much?

Ok good strategy on a low & outside pitch especially on a major league level when the pitchers can consistently hit that area. But does he drop the glove on every type of pitch or every area of pitch ? Like you say it would be more useful in youth leagues but would the advantage be negated by youth pitchers not consistently hitting the right area & causing more passed balls because the catcher is not as good as to be able to reach out of area pitches ?

The most difficult pitch up receive well, i think, is the lefty curve ball. Catching a pitch that's curving off the inside (, catchers left) are the toughest to make look good.

What do you think about catchers mits? Have professional catchers been using a glove more like a first base mit? Or have catchers mits over the last 20 years stayed the same?

Why are there no left handed catchers? Second base or shortstop I get cause it would be hard to do

I wish umpires would call these a ball when catchers move their glove this much. I think catchers do this and then complain that umpires cannot call balls and strikes properly.

So, for youth baseball, most youth, put the glove in the strike zone, and give the pitcher a target. But according to the video, you should start low with your glove. I do like the video and I learned a lot. But I was wondering if that will work for youth since they usually have to give a target right down the middle. Any thoughts on that? Hi Coach 13u. Thank you so much.

As a former mexican league catcher, which is a curveball league, i can assure you that properly receiving a curveball is a huge benefit to your pitcher and your team. However, what I see here and with almost all current mlb catchers is way too much glove movement. Taking a ball off the dirt or off the plate and ending with your glove in the middle of the zone is ridiculous. Glove movement has to be subtle and shouldnt be much more than a turn of the wrist or a bend from the elbow. Bench, sciosia, yadi, i-rod, carter, tony pena, etc were fantastic at just nudging a ball back into the zone. Todays catchers, like realmoto in this video, jerk the glove halfway across the plate and make it look ridiculous. JT does a great job getting behind the ball but would be better suited subtly getting the glove up to his knee rather than yanking it up to the middle of the plate.

He .makes it look like it's the same pitch over and over again like it's a replay not a new pitch

what do you think of one leg down catching. tony pena invented that and they should call it his style. all this framing stats are a bunch of baloney. that cannot prove what would have been a strike or ball nor did they save any runs.

His 'timing' is merely a function of repetition of this drill. It ALL will fall apart the moment that other factors (most notably -- that pitchers do NOT throw all curves and do NOT pitch on the same cadence/tempo). This is a VERY flawed analysis.

Can't wait for robo umps so we can get away from tricking the umpire being a catching skill.