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  2. PitchCom - Wikipedia

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    PitchCom has two functional components: a nine-button keypad that the catcher wears and small wireless receivers, with speakers, that the catcher, the pitcher, and up to three other fielders may wear inside their baseball caps. [7] Each receiver can be programmed to a particular spoken language. When the catcher presses buttons to indicate the ...

  3. Catcher - Wikipedia

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    Once the ball is in play, however, the catcher and pitcher, like the other fielders, can respond to any part of the field necessary to make or assist in a defensive play. [18] The defensive plays expected of catchers, aside from managing the pitcher by calling for pitches and catching them, include: Preventing wild pitches and avoiding passed ...

  4. Pitch (baseball) - Wikipedia

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    The responsibility for selecting the type of pitch is traditionally made by the catcher, who gives hand signals to the pitcher with his fingers, usually one finger for fastball or the pitcher's best pitch, with the pitcher having the option to ask for another selection by shaking his head. [3]

  5. What do robo-umps, challenge system mean for catchers ... - AOL

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  6. Why MLB spring training matters more to catchers and pitchers ...

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    A pitcher and catcher converge at the midway point between the mound and home plate to review an inaugural bullpen session. Feedback is exchanged. Sometimes there’s a fist bump of validation or ...

  7. Signs of the Time (film) - Wikipedia

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    Signs of the Time is a 60-minute American documentary film on the origin of hand signals in baseball.There are several myths in regard to how signals were started, and the film addresses some of the mysteries that led to umpires giving hand-signals to call plays in the field, base coaches to relay hand signals to players on the field, and catchers to relay hand signals to pitchers.

  8. Sign stealing - Wikipedia

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    Catcher James McCann (in white uniform) of the Detroit Tigers using his right hand (obscured) to give signs to his pitcher, in a 2015 game against the Minnesota Twins.. In baseball, sign stealing is the act of observing the signs being signaled by the opposing catcher to the pitcher or a coach, and the subsequent relaying of those signals to members of one's own team.

  9. When do pitchers, catchers report to spring training? Report ...

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    The New York Mets (Port St. Lucie, Fla.) will have their pitchers and catchers report on Monday, Feb. 12. Other clubs are expected to have their pitchers and catchers in camp by Feb. 14.