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Catcher coverage ?
Your right .... one has to treed lightly. I've been a coach in one capacity or another for 15 seasons. I never minded a conversation from someone as long as it was outside of a game or practice unless it involved safety. Today I'm trying to back out and I keep running into two types; The typical...- mike2000
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- Forum: Softball Catching
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Catcher coverage ?
Ive used the throw to SS coverage with the boys - works very well. Now that I see this marathon running by the catcher is as odd as I thought I have to figure out a way to gently try to work a suggestive approach with the coach. There has to be a happy medium but the 4 ( yes there are 4 coaches...- mike2000
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- Forum: Softball Catching
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Catcher coverage ?
Thank you for the replies. Probably to apease the coach maybe on occassion allow Catcher to take several steps more toward 3rd when runner on 2nd, throw to 3 if real aggressive runner or simply back to pitcher. ( The team so far has 4 pitchers, 2 I would say are real pitchers the other 2 just...- mike2000
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- Forum: Softball Catching
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Catcher coverage ?
My background had been travel baseball. Daughter is a strong catcher 10u, very promising and has already caught for older teams. I'm not a coach on her travel team and am taken back by what I think is a short sighted defensive coverage approach. >No runner on 3rd, runner on 2nd tempting to...- mike2000
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