42 and starting to feel the pain of keeping up with these guys. At least they get to take off the gear and sit down every other half-inning. (Love my catchers. The ones who keep me safe, at least.)
Great breakdown. I'd caution any catcher about screening the plate umpire out with runner's on if they're on the tall side. I've had a few Varsity guys screen me out entirely and lose a potential third strike on batters crowding the plate. If you see a batter crowding the plate - try not to crowd it and pop up - you won't get the low strike if the PU gets screened out. If he's not over your head with a hand behind your back - he's most likely getting screened on any pop.
I use modified kickstand in place of a primary, a single knee in that same spot or in the place of either 2 strikes or someone on a base that is not first, and secondary if there’s someone on first.
Exercising your knees laterally will save you as a catcher. Using rollerblades, ice skating (hockey) or slide boards are the keys to healthy knees as a catcher.
Cant do that with my little league teams😒 leagues around here that both knees need to be off the ground and if they are not once the pitch is thrown, its an automatic strike. Supposedly to increase safety behind the plate
That’s assuming no wild pitches are thrown. This style of catching really only works in high levels of ball. For those younger catchers learning you should always be in an active stance
Depends on pitch ...like 2 strikes nobody on single knee is good to block curve or spiked fastball to complete drop 3 out by throwing to first! Yet dont give away what pitcher is throwing by your "stance"!!
Hey, catching made simple, I just have a question. Should Catchers have good power when batting? Since they’re throwing hard to 1st 2nd and 3rd, I thought that they should have good power. I’m a catcher myself.
It's actually not new. You can watch film of Elrod Hendricks and Andy Etchebarren doing it in the 1960s. Maybe it was an Oriole thing, but It's definitely not new.
@@jomamackdaddy: Yes, but it was frowned upon because the catcher cannot block a wild pitch with his body. I think it came back as the players from South America, the Caribbean etc began getting picked up into the majors? Maybe it’s a habit that’s hard to break? Hell, it could be encouraged to preserve the knees.
@TERoss-jk9ny I'm confused. You absolutely block a wild pitch with your body. Are you saying it's harder to square it up or to come up to block when you have a knee down? If that's the case, then you are correct to some degree, but with 2 strikes or runners on, Andy and Elrod used a traditional stance.
I’m curious I was watching a bunch of other videos and there’s a high percent of missed blocked balls by catchers because of the knee down stance is this true?
Stop teaching kids to start with there thumb down before the pitch, every mlb catcher has there glove level, and having there elbow way up can injure catchers at higher levels, learned this from mlb cardinals triple aaa catcher and he said yadi thought him
Your butt doesn't need to be higher. It restricts your ability to block and decreases your flexibility of movement. You have plenty of time to raise your butt when you see the runner take off. Watch some Bench, Dempsey, or Rodriguez and get back to me.
If you are blocking with your glove on the ground, then you are an amateur. If a pitch is gonna bounce that low, then you could reach out and catch it clean. As you get better, blocking is almost always rising up, not going down
Yeah they can “block just fine” if the ball is thrown to their knee-down side. How about this, “Hey, your stance should depend on the situation”. Why does everything have to be a science now? You’re over-complicating everything just for the sake of sounding like an expert. This channel serves no purpose.
@@Mindedllama2098 yeah we all fucking know you use different stances for different situations. That’s the point. This is useless advice to anyone who doesn’t play little league.
