Catchers setting up the pitch...glove position

Comp said:

Personally, after the catcher squats into position, I will step in behind her and then place my other foot to the outside to set myself in the slot for which ever side the batter is on. When I drop into position will depend on the pitchers routine, but usually once pitchers bring their hands together they are starting their pitch. When the hands come together I will usually drop into position and get ready to pick up the ball leaving the hand and track it to the plate.

Things that annoy me? Any big late movements by the catcher. We are not looking at the catcher, we are trying to watch the pitch. Catchers that move alot make it extremely difficult to always track the pitch, especially when they come over the inside corner and block the view in the slot or they bounce up and down. If they do move alot, you have to eventually pick a spot to setup where even if they move they wont block the view of the plate, and usually this means you set up higher than you would like. This kills the view of the bottom of the strike zone. Most catchers are right handed, and with a right handed batter, even centered on the plate they can darn near reach to the outside line of the batters box with their glove. There is no need for them to get their whole body over that inside corner, all it does is block our view of the inside strike. If they do it alot, we have to go back to setting up higher to see over them and then loose the bottom of the zone. The only other thing I see alot that drives me nuts is framing the pitch. Rolling your wrist a little on the catch is one thing, catching the ball and moving the glove 6" or more and then holding it for me to see does absolutely nothing. If the catcher thinks the pitch was far enough out it needed to be brought back into the zone, why would the umpire think its a strike?

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JBG said:

Do i get to throw the yellow flag and call "thread Hijack" yet? LOL

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