The Kansas City Royals are considering paying their pitchers bonuses to give up home runs.
. Factor in how many of those relatively infrequent first-pitch swings result in foul balls and how many of the balls actually put in play still result in outs , and the Royals' math checks out: Pitchers get hurt on only about 6% of the first pitches they throw in the zone.
“You might shade the arm side or shade the glove side,” Strom said, “but going to corners is just fool’s gold.”. But it's still vitally important, which is where catchers come in. Simple, though, doesn’t necessarily mean easy. Despite the straightforwardness of the “stuff in the strike zone” approach, it doesn’t apply to every arsenal.
Musgrove relies on location to get outs and avoid walks. Accordingly, he likes his catchers to show him — even if it’s just a flash of the glove, so as not to give away the location for too long — exactly where to put the pitch. Good catchers think of themselves as an extension of the coaching staff, working in service of maximizing each pitcher’s unique arsenal and ability. That means knowing who — among the ever expanding and often rotating array of pitchers on a major-league staff — wants what when it comes to providing a target. The best catchers, though, sometimes know better than the pitcher himself.
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