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Catcher Holding Pitches
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MPLSMatt
How do you guys address a catcher who is holding pitches on you? It's been many years since I've had a situation where a quick "back to the pitcher - none of that garbage today" didn't fix it, but had that situation today in a 12AAA (of all friggen ages) game. Kid is a total Bryce Harper wannabe - scowling at me over pitches he didn't get (while hitting), complaining about everything, slamming his bat on the plate after a called strike, but the real problem was that when catching, he started holding the pitches he didn't get well after the call was made. I told him, "still a ball. Get it back to the pitcher" but he kept doing it. Would you escalate this? Warning? I'm not sure I was ready to eject at 12 year old over this, so I didn't want to throw out a warning I wasn't prepared to act on. At this level, would you recommend going to the coach (who happened to be the kid's dad in this case)? How would you handle it?
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Umpirechick1
I agree with the others. Fix it, and fix it early. I once told a catcher "I know you wanted that one, so I'll be sure to call it a strike when you're batting." He didn't do it for the rest of the g
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He knows what he's doing... you gave him a warning... get rid of him. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk
Man_In_Black
When a catcher starts holding close pitches on me, I usually say, "you can hold that mitt there for another ten minutes if you want, but the pitch is still gonna be a ball." They usually get the messa
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