Full day catcher training with Coach Basham sharpening all catcher skills. We worked on receiving, blocking, special drills, block and recover and throwing technique. Was a good day of work!! Thank you Coach! @BashOnCatching @JCHSBaseball @CoachCamNCSA @NCSA_Baseball

My oldest son is 29, a captain in the USMC. He traveled all over the place, playing baseball, until he was 21. Then he'd had enough, decided not to play at the Naval Academy. He tells me, in regard to my business, "Dad, sell fun. Try to convince dads to keep it fun." That's all.

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I’d rather have the wrong pitch delivered with 100% conviction(belief), than the right pitch with 50%. Wait, can you define that analytically? No. Al is 100% correct.

Pitching, in its most general sense, is the disruption of a hitter's timing. Inducing weak contact, or swings and misses, is the goal. Greg Maddux told me one time, during my first WBC when he was the @WBCBaseball @USABaseball pitching coach, that every pitch he delivered was thrown with the "intent" to get the hitter out. Intent is the key word here. As a pitcher, or catcher, what is your intent? Not spin rate, or any analytical number. Intent.

Yes. He’s a winner and legendary catcher. That is not debatable.

Dear Catcher, This is Mr. Coach. How dare you do a deflection with your mitt on the 100mph FB spiked at 56’ feet. You need to first get off your knee, slide your body over with two knees down, tuck your chin, and get your barehand behind the ball! - Reality: Nice athletic game-saving stop. Do what you gotta do! Catch first, Stop it second. Hands move faster than the body! I’ve never met a pitcher that tried to intentionally throw a fastball in the dirt.

For those of you who believe in glove load & moving the ball, this is a good drill to reset when you are coming out of your load too soon & don’t have enough ball flight to accurately assess where the pitch will end up.

Blocking is a mindset more than anything. There are many different stances and positions to block from. However, it doesn’t matter what position you block from if the runner is able to take an extra base because you didn’t keep the ball close enough to “stall” that baserunner.