Why Pitchers and Catchers Need to Own the Showcase – Advice for Coaches
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- Jun 6
- 2 min read
📢 Pitcher ⇦ ⇨ Catcher battery: are you calling your own game? 🎥 @victoriahay #teachthemyoung #travelball #showcasetournament #learnthegame #softball
Video Transcript:
Okay, just getting in the field, day two of recruiting this weekend, and I just have to get this off my chest before I head out. This is for pitchers, catchers, and the travel ball coaches. If you are at a showcase and you are not calling your own game, what are you doing? We have to allow our young pitchers and catchers to learn. And to me, there is no reason why in a showcase, a coach should be calling pitches from the dugout. There's just no reason.
It is our jobs to teach these kids the game and what a more perfect environment teach them about the ownership of calling of, like throwing the pitch you want to throw. Um, you know, the ability to make adjustments as a coach. know if the pitch got hit because it's a bad pitch call, or if the pitch just isn't good enough to face that hitter, but are we teaching the kids? Are we just creating robots and in a showcase where it doesn't matter, man, the stock value of a pitcher catcher battery that's calling their own pitches.
and shaking and owning it is worth so much more than someone that's just a robot throwing circles. So ah if this even gets one travel ball coach to change their mind and let their battery call pitches, my job here is done. But please try it. Please try it. We got to teach these kids how to do it. We got to teach these pitchers how to own it. We got to teach these pitchers how to shake, throw what they want and learn, learn why that pitch didn't work.
Hitters are getting really good and pitchers need to be able to elevate. And I think they can do that by learning more, not just being robots, figuring out how to spin balls past hitters and do so from their point of view and not just do whatever coach says. So the minute I see that, oh my God, I will be such proud softball person, but where are the pitchers and catchers that are doing that? Cause we're looking.
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