"framing" vs. "Pulling"

[guero_gordo]

DD catching for a new team, pitcher missing the strike zone by 9" or more. Coach calling balls and strikes standing behind P

After about 5 walks, conference at the mound, P says:
"Some of those could be strikes if you 'framed' them better." ;-)

 

[Greenmonsters]

If you pull, the only thing your trying to pull is the umpire's ...... leg, and that usually doesn't make him happy. The coach needs to learn more about catching (get/loan him a/your copy of the NECC video) and the pitcher needs to learn better control.

 

[guero_gordo]

To their credit, coaches stayed out of the conference, never said a word about receiving. I've had to fight that fight before, thankfully not here.

Pulling could never work with the ump behind P, even if you could talk DD into doing it.

 

[RichK]

Seems like it was the "P" (not the coach) that said that in the OP. Easiest reply (always): just hit your spots

; >

 

[Greenmonsters]

To their credit, coaches stayed out of the conference, never said a word about receiving. I've had to fight that fight before, thankfully not here.

Pulling could never work with the ump behind P, even if you could talk DD into doing it.

Sorry, my original take was a reflex response post. I only missed about half the details in the OP even though it was short and clear! My new advice is to that next time your DD needs to tell the pitcher "They would've been strikes if they were over the plate - do you want me to move the plate or do you prefer it where it is?"

 

[YOCOACH]

My new advice is to that next time your DD needs to tell the pitcher "They would've been strikes if they were over the plate - do you want me to move the plate or do you prefer it where it is?"

LOL...Priceless!

 

[CCJR]

"They would've been strikes if they were over the plate - do you want me to move the plate or do you prefer it where it is?"

Priceless indeed...

I have always told my students that if a pitcher ever asks why the catcher didn't attempt to make the balls they were throwing look like strikes the conversation should go like this.

Pitcher: "Why didn't you make that ball look like a strike?!?"

Catcher: "You didn't throw one." Try throwing across the plate next time and when it hits my glove it will most definitely look like a strike."

 

[Jim]

Funny. "Catcher's" job... to "catch" the ball. Not to magically turn balls into strikes.

 

[guero_gordo]

Funny. "Catcher's" job... to "catch" the ball. Not to magically turn balls into strikes.

To paraphrase Dr. McCoy on Star Trek, "I'm a catcher not a magician, Jim!"

 

[starsnuffer]

I've always been of the mind that a catcher can make a strike a ball, but she can't make a ball a strike.

-W