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During spring training before the 2023 MLB season, MLB allowed pitchers to wear PitchCom wristbands so they could call their own pitches. [4] As spring training ended, MLB allowed pitchers to request pitches on PitchCom during the 2023 regular season. [5] PitchCom also began to be used in the KBO League from July 2024. [6]
The use of the word 'battery' in baseball was first coined by Henry Chadwick in the 1860s in reference to the firepower of a team's pitching staff and inspired by the artillery batteries then in use in the American Civil War. [2] Later, the term evolved to indicate the combined effectiveness of pitcher and catcher. [2]
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 ...
Now, with the amount of data available regarding pitchers’ physical strengths and weaknesses, teams such as the Mariners have prioritized an intense intentionality behind how their catchers work ...
Last year, Reds pitchers had a 5.11 ERA when Stephenson was behind the plate, which was the worst mark among the Reds’ catchers. This year, pitchers have a 3.93 ERA with Stephenson behind the ...
According to MLB.com, there is only one known instance in pro baseball of a player appearing for both teams in the same game. Dale Holman played for both the Syracuse Chiefs and Richmond Braves in ...
If he fails to stop it in time, the umpire will call a strike because he swung at the pitch. Often the umpire's view of the swing is obstructed. If the umpire calls the pitch a ball, a defensive player such as the catcher or pitcher can ask the home plate umpire to ask another umpire whether the batter swung at the pitch.
The catcher's job is to receive any pitches that the batter does not hit and to "call" the game by a series of hand movements which signal to the pitcher what pitch to throw and where. The catcher also usually signals the desired location of the ball within the strike zone and "sets up" behind the plate or holds his glove up in the desired ...