Today In 1957: Brooklyn Dodgers legend Roy Campanella hits career HR #237 - breaking Gabby Hartnett's National League record for career home runs by a catcher!
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Today In 1957: Brooklyn Dodgers legend Roy Campanella hits career HR #237 - breaking Gabby Hartnett's National League record for career home runs by a catcher!
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Thurman Munson, 1976 Topps
The Best Catchers Know When Not to Walk to the Mound
The Catcher Visit Economy tracks how MLB’s new rules made catcher visits, framing skill, and pitcher trust part of one hidden battle.
Baseball loves the mound visit because it looks dramatic.
Mask off. Slow walk. Pitcher breathing hard. Crowd wondering if the inning is about to crack.
But the smartest catchers do not spend that visit too early.
That is the catcher visit economy. A pitcher misses the edge, the clock keeps moving, the hitter starts smelling trouble, and the catcher has to decide if this needs a speech or just one calm target.
Sometimes the visit is a lower glove.
Sometimes it is a slower return throw.
Sometimes it is calling the next pitch with enough confidence that the pitcher remembers he is still in control.
That is the hidden baseball now.
Framing matters. ABS challenges matter. Pitch clock pressure matters. But the real skill is knowing when the man on the mound needs information, and when he just needs belief.
Fans see the strikeout.
Catchers know they saved the inning three pitches earlier.
Obligatory Catcher question: Do you think the book is funny? I read it in college and it was one of the funniest books I had to read for a class. I found Holden to be sometimes intentionally hilarious and sometimes unintentionally funny. I wasn't ever laughing at him, just his deadpan observations of the world. He is so deadly serious about everything (as teenagers are wont to do!!) yet sometimes he still manages to circle back around to being sarcastic and silly (which is also what teenagers do.)
oh its hysterical. i love Holden so fucking much he is SO funny
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purchasing a hardcover copy of catcher in the rye & also a copy of the book "j.d. salingers the catcher in the rye" by josef benson, which is a hysterical thing to title your examination of the historical and cultural context surrounding a novel, I think, but does what it says on the tin
i have have a notes doc with episode ideas... making it happen ....
people talk about how holden caulfield is an unreliable narrator and its like.... yeah. what things is he narrating unreliably? quickly now. is it perhaps the fact that he is framing his experiences in the way his culture has given him access to, while at the same time the text is showing us what is actually happening underneath, and what kind of impact that is having on him and why?
and then you say the word "trauma" and they're like what are you talking about. lol. lmao even