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1. Nobody ##### with DeJesus Posted: May 25, 2005 at 01:27 PM (#1360210)I've noticed in watching the O's this year, Lopez rests his throwing hand/arm on his right leg while in the crouch, leaving the hand exposed if he doesn't catch the ball.
All it took was one foul tip...
Young catcher take heed, ball that hand up in a fist and tuck it behind your back or your right foot. Protect it, cause it hurts when it gets hit.
Unfortunately, the one thing that nobody could dispute about the Orioles before the season was that they lacked depth. Not that many teams have a good backup catcher, but Gil and Fasano? Ugh.
And getting Sosa back is of limited help to the team, though he's obviously going to give us more than Keith Reed.
BTW, if anybody had told me before the season that Brian Roberts would be an MVP candidate, I'd have thought him a loon. Just for the record. If I had known that, I'd have revised my predictions for them upward.
Strange that you should mention this. Estrada does pretty much the same, and boy does he take a pounding behind the plate..Maybe its something the Braves emphasise..or fail to emphasise?!
As for Fiorentino, I odn't think 3 games at Florida Atlantic are enough to qualify him as a college catcher, but the O's agree with you to a degree. they've notified him thathe should be prepared to be the emergency catcher until Fasano can be brought back.
That surprises me considering that BJ Surhoff is still there, but I guess with his bad back, they don't want to end his career "prematurely". LOL.
It seems like this would be something that young catchers learn in Little League or in high school or college and not something that the Braves would have to teach.
At any rate, kids, do not do as these catchers do - save your hands, do not be lazy, put that meat hand behind your back or below your heel... it's the right way!
At least you don't think of the "down low" like that group of black guys on L&O: SVU. It's not homosexuality, it's just doing it in the butt.
I had the same thought, but they came up in different organizations. I can't believe this is something much discussed at the major league level (though, maybe it should be).
On the other hand, Estrada has appeared to be trying harder. He got tagged the other night on the throwing hand with that hand hidden behind his leg. The foul tip took the only trajectory possible to clip him. I mean, a tenth of an inch either way and he doesn't get hit.
No, he just needs to age 12 years.
That's unfair; with the exception of the weird nostalgia wrt the washed-up Palmeiro and the even weirder fascination with the never-was-any-good Surhoff, the Orioles have pretty much given up on the whole blind-veteran-worship thing the past year or so.
When I was complaining about his performance to-date, he was hitting like 300/400!
2 5 6 7 8 9 Palmeiro 2 107 22 6 3 0 Surhoff 2 3 17 46 9 0 Gibbons 0 0 9 69 37 21Actually, it was more like .300/.470.
The real lesson here is to be careful about a month's worth of stats.
What do you mean, *I'm* basing *my* point on a month and half's worth of stats? I - hey! What's that over there!
Yeah, just like the Royals might put Sweeney back behind the plate if their catcher goes down or the Marlins might send Delgado back there if LoDuca gets hurt. I mean, those guys came up as catchers.
I think Fiorentino was a catcher for a few games because some scouts wanted to see if he could catch....and he couldn't. Of course, I think most of them also thought he couldn't hit....and apparently he can, so maybe it's not that crazy an idea.
Now, if we were talking about a team carrying a 3rd catcher, this would be different. While I'd never intentionally want Carlos Delgado catching a game, if there was a 1-in-1000 chance that both my catchers got injured a game (which are shorter odds than most situations), I'd rather have Delgado catch an inning in an emergency than carry a 3rd catcher all the time.
These freak injuries are annoying, but they don't concern me the way the old age joint and muscle injuries that are afflicting the Sox and Yanks would.
Don't you know that he's only hitting that well because he's benefitted from Brian Roberts protecting him in the lineup? I mean, the way Roberts has been hitting, you could stick Leeza Gibbons in the 9-hole and she'd put up an .800 OPS.
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