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- Dec 13, 2019
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Starting with glove low is not new.I'm not sure if you've talked about what I think is a fairly new catching approach -- not sure I'd call it a style -- where catchers are taught to start low and bring the glove up to catch the ball. Pretty sure it started in MLB, and it's supposed to help get those low strikes. A lot of catchers will even start on one knee (the Oklahoma St catcher is doing it as I type this) to get lower.
That would be on a direct hard parallel to the ground pitch. With extremely slight variance in Pitch trajectory.If you're starting that low, wouldn't catching the ball the "regular" (fingers up) way work? Especially if you're working the glove upward toward the lower part of the zone. Obviously not talking dirt balls, but pretty much anything from shins up, I'd think. Maybe even a bit lower.
(AKA arc of the ball not dropping)
Basically
*The pocket of the glove should always be facing the trajectory of the ball.
Low would be fine.
But starting with a low low glove
(at the ankles) would mean also possibly catching a ball and raising the arm to produce it into the strike zone. Which is a greater movement visually impacting what the catcher is doing because the arm itself is moving and not just the subtlety of the arm rotating wrist turning/framing.
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