Austin Hedges and the Art of Pitch Framing

[@Dazalinco]

I always wait for Hedges star rating on OOTP to dip and then trade for him. You can’t beat two 75 ability catchers boosting those ERA stats

[@talhakarsloglu4278]

If I would be a baseball player, I would want to be a catcher. It's really the most important position in defense.

[@SportStorm23]

Talha Karslıoğlu it really is the most important

[@choiyatlam2552]

Just don’t get concussion from foul tips and hitter’s follow through.

[@jakobhallam1540]

Its also easily the hardest

[@karamazovkid71]

A Catcher's equipment: shin guards, mask, chest protector, mitt, and cup are called collectively "The Tools of Ignorance" because the more ignorant a catcher is the more effective he will be as a catcher. Every catcher that has ever been born thinks they are a better pitcher than every pitcher who ever was born. A catcher's primary jobs are to tell the fielders how many outs there are, tell the fielders where they are to throw a fielded ground ball (in other words to call the defensive play), make sure the outfielders are properly positioned, and to enforce discipline on the defense. A catcher does NOT: call the pitches, or catch pop-ups in fair territory. A catcher chooses which infielder will catch a pop-up around home plate. He does not catch a pop-up if another player can possibly catch it. (Pitchers do not catch pop-ups either.) Infielders catch pop-ups. As far as being a catcher: when I was 5 years old my father bought me a catcher's mitt for christmas because, as a former professional pitcher, he liked to work off tension after work by throwing 90 mph fastballs at a 5 year old kid. I distinctly remember the first pitch he threw to me. He stood me in front of a granite wall and told me he was going to throw the ball and he wanted me to catch it with my brand new mitt. His pitch went past my head on the right and as I turned toward it, it ricocheted off the stone wall and zinged back past my head on the left. I almost died of fright. My last year in baseball I was 57 years old and an American Legion pitching coach who warmed up every pitcher on my staff every day. I had spent every day every summer for the final six years of my baseball life blocking 85 mph fastballs with my testicles and pissing blood. Do you still want to be a catcher? I think the ignorance part comes before one puts on the Tools! Are you ignorant enough?

[@talhakarsloglu4278]

@@karamazovkid71 If there was any chance that I could play baseball, yes I would want to.

[@StarkRavingSports]

Terrific video Storm!

[@SportStorm23]

Stark Raving Sports thanks!

[@VianoMusicAcademy]

Stark Raving Sports thanks for sending me!

[@nholmes333]

Padres diehard here. Going to miss Hedgey and that smile. Great defensively for us and wishing him a great career.

[@Catcher34]

Tips for pitch framing catch the high ball close to your body. Get early to the low pitch get under it and don’t let it push you glove. And move your Body to we’re you want the ball.

[@alex7633]

Seriously, how do you not have 100k subs??!!! this channel is amazing, so glad I found it just now!!

[@nolanhill11]

I'm a pitcher on my team. Our catcher is one of the best framers I've had.. I get around 5-6 is looking cause of framing

[@outtaherebaseball3205]

Awesome stuff! You're lucky to have him in San Diego

[@SportStorm23]

Outta Here Baseball thanks! Yes we’re very lucky

[@Tourszs17]

No, we are not lucky. He is one of the worst hitters in baseball

[@jacksoncatalano1452]

Not anymore :(

[@joeysheldon8166]

@@jacksoncatalano1452 we love him in cleveland for what's it worth

[@Vegas_Des]

Great video! Never knew how important the catcher was

[@michaelcroft3216]

Padres fans have such shit comments on social media about his hitting, but dont realize how much better he makes pitchers and knows the staff. he is the definition of a catcher. he is not a dh behind the plate, but the mind of our defense and the man who develops young pitchers.

[@richardtherichard26]

A lot of people also don’t realize how unimportant hitting is for a catcher. In the past 40 years only 4 men who have won AL silver sluggers at catcher have hit over .300 over an entire season (mike Stanley, pudge (6x) Jorge posada and joe mauer (5x)) it’s not necessary to hit the lights out as a backstop, just do exactly what hedges does, make your staff better players simply by being there behind the plate.

[@-linusthegoat-4825]

who’s here after he became a ws champion

[@TheHockeyjock10]

Austin Hedges is a huge reason for the Guardians success this year. Great breakdown.

[@ryan98408]

The ability of a hitter/pitcher to overcome the unfairness of a bad strike call is always fascinating to me. It's a sieve of high character in the box, and a verdict of true stamina on the mound. The great ones welcome the challenge.

[@alexhisem1852]

You deserve more subscribers

[@loganwannepain7389]

A video idea would be the success of the Molina brothers trio, Yadi, Jose, and Bengie

[@bigtuna2718]

Ngl that backround is trippy

[@erik-gz6hb]

When you notice that video he suggested at the beginning was against the Astros

[@backyardbaseball2006]

Soooo can we get a vid about how Jose Molina MIGHT have been the GOAT??🧐

[@yellowflamegaulent3902]

You should send this to Austin Hedges he dosent get alot of attention behind the plate

[@SportStorm23]

Yellow Flame Gaulent yeah I could do that

[@taco2728]

@@SportStorm23 choi.

[@darienvinke9565]

as a catcher, this was oddly satisfying

[@7varm2]

I’m a fan of classic strategy. IMO, it’s a bad idea to distance the classic fans in favor of “streamlining” or dumbing down the game in order to bring in more basic fans. I just think you’ll see many more offensive and good arm strength catchers and less Austin Hedges. But then again, I also don’t like the 3 batter minimum rule.

[@SportStorm23]

Paco very good points

[@Phoenix-pm2qr]

Love the baseball info, Subbed for the SpongeBob references.

[@thehumblepotatoreborn9313]

That painting was great. What u smoking man

[@gamecuber7987]

Great video quick question who do you think is better Hedges or Sanchez? The elite hitter of Sanchez and bad defense or Hedges amazing defense and bad hitting

[@SportStorm23]

Game Cuber that’s tough. Hedges is a leader behind the plate and pretty much makes any pitcher better, I’m not sure the same can be said for Sánchez. So if you can live with an offensive liability with the bottom of the lineup, I’d say use Hedges. If not, then use Sánchez.

[@Nitsudrd]

I think WAR determines that

[@baseballplayer5556]

Only a Padres fan would make a good video about Austin Hedges

[@tatsuyaarai6029]

Negative career WAR tells a lot about his offense. I like those weird stats players. Wishing him to win WS :)

[@joemckraken7960]

hey hedges, you know what else is an art? hitting the baseball. you should try it every once in awhile.

[@lorenkrug]

The art of “run reduction” wins games. There’s a reason Pitchers are labeled the #1 position and Catchers are labeled the #2 position. Neither position first focus is run production, but the teams with best Pitchers & Catchers win more

[@patrickdabs]

Uh, just a dumb question but, what was the title of the deleted beat you used?

[@napalmsf]

Dope video

[@ryonotrio6904]

Catching and framing is such an important part of baseball. If mlb sacked terrible Umps *cough* Angel Hernandez *cough* We wouldn't even have to consider robot umpires

[@VianoMusicAcademy]

Subscriber #704. 100K, here we come!

[@SportStorm23]

maybe one day, thanks for subbing! :)

[@vincamel5263]

I love this game and have done so for almost 40 years, but if they ever get rid of old blue for an electronic strike zone I will have to walk away from the game . The umps are part of the game it's like a 3rd team that know they can never win a gam so they try to make it as even as possible (most of the time)

[@DaveyFish1]

How do you not have more subscribers?

[@bruce4139]

If robo umps come into the game were going to have a couple years of really weird baseball where the catchers are good at framing but they're still going to struggle or where going to have a lot more of offensive power hitters like Vladimir Guerrero jr. Behind the plate so they can pump out guys at second and also hit nukes. It will change the game that's for sure and definitely not in a way I want it to.

[@Reaper_ginger]

Buster Posey will always one of my favorite players.

[@natedole8276]

Just want to point out that him tipping the pitches was in fact NOT how they knew what he was throwing....

[@drewu9217]

Was not expecting to see Arkansas randomly in this video, woo pig Also was during the worst sports moment of my life

[@JamesEarlBonez]

Fire 🔥 📛 👨‍🚒 🚒 video

[@jackstraw522]

Turns out the artist pictured was also an All American Catcher in high school 🤣🤣🤣

[@monerz1]

Hedges lifetime batting average is .568. He's also a great bench cheerleader.

[@andregruber5639]

Austin Hedges is talking about being as possible. Same goes for Jose Molina, next to to no movement with the glove. New school catching teaches to make big moves with the gloves. I see a trend here....

[@andregruber5639]

as "still" as possible

[@Gabriel-bj1ut]

totally not inspired by FoolishBaseballs' video on jeff mathis

[@SportStorm23]

AceAvengers yeah totally not 👀, to be fair I’ve actually have had this idea for a while

[@reykong1745]

as a Padres fan I just wish Hedges could hit over .200

[@Nitsudrd]

Hedges has hall of fame talent as a catcher but not even backup catcher talent as a hitter. The pitchers here in sd love him though

[@larsfinlay7325]

Catchers are like goalkeepers in soccer, they're fucking mental

[@drunknhamster4708]

I feel like the robot umpire should only be there for clear strikes and balls. Let the umps decide on the “closer” ones.

[@Catcher34]

Yes I have been a catcher my hole life and it is the most disrespected and forgotten player on the field unless the catcher just suck

[@Catcher34]

The crispy Memes nah your 100% right none of the pitchers on my team had a good slide step so they just didn’t slide steep and all the time second would good get taken so would third because the thirdbasemen didn’t know how to lay down a tag

[@Catcher34]

The crispy Memes oh are third basemen always suck and are Coach never taught anyone to lay down a tag or how to approach the bag so I would all the time hit the runner in the lag at third base safe to say I left that team and joined a much better one

[@jessestewart947]

I would hate robot umpires

[@secretagentrandybeans364]

Me and my brother are both Padres fans and we keep arguing over who is better hedges or Mejia

[@jshighlights6541]

Hedges obviously. He is way better on defense, Mejia is supposed to be a hitting catcher and so far hasn’t done well with his at bats.

[@secretagentrandybeans364]

@@jshighlights6541 my thoughts exactly but my brother was saying it wasn't just that hedges was bad at hitting it was that he was historically bad

[@tubuskan4348]

This one reason I don’t want robot umps

[@karamazovkid71]

That Picasso is probably worth more money than Bryce Harper will earn in his entire lifetime.

[@izaman56]

Well Glasnow was not tipping pitches

[@OK-om8kw]

I think regular umps should stay, regular umps contributes to the love and hate bullcrap of the game, the mistakes they call causes drama and enthusiasm to some (Angel Hernandez), and without those I think baseball wouldn't be the same (a little bit).

[@post-leftluddite]

As an umpire, if I saw the catcher's glove move, I'd be less likely to call it a strike.. If it's close, in my opinion, a good catcher will leave his glove there and give me a second to make the call, us umpires call that "buying a strike"

[@mikeyg1738]

Please don’t bring robot umpires

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

I think they make balls and strikes challengeable before that happens.

[@BeefPapa]

The only drawback of automatic balls and strikes is that the art of framing pitches will be lost.

[@monerz1]

I get the feeing the narrator has never played baseball in his life.

[@BloodoperaBlackvomit]

Robo umps are such a bad idea.

[@biopanda4226]

Ghostdialoog I know bad umping is part of the game

[@bread44]

wish we'd kept him, Hedges and Nola is better than Caratini and Nola

[@pepperonilover6520]

*cough* *cough* Jeff Mathis *cough* *cough*

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

I think the best solution would just be to make balls and strikes reviewable and give teams an extra challenge for them before we go full robo-ump.

[@JavierHernandez-ff5mp]

Austin Hedges- The art of sucking at baseball

[@JohnM-sw4sc]

? Explain

[@alexhisem1852]

First

[@SportStorm23]

Darkshark 744 🙂

[@youtubevanced2055]

hitters recognizing tipped pitches is really a thing. I just don't believe that that's the case for the astros. #garbageCan lol

[@heavi-armed-infadel]

Seems kind of dishonest to try and trick the official into believing the ball was somewhere that it actually was not.

[@thunderbugcreative7778]

These guys are unreal and truth be told these aren't even that great of examples of the art they are capable of producing. I'm sure umpires are so sick of these new fangled, knee down, nurse sharks getting credited with fooling calls out of them, but........ sorry blue you do be gettn' fooled by the steeeeeeezy flow!

[@aaronrodgersaccountant6726]

austin hedges should really work on the art of hitting. man he sucks at hitting

[@eskimogolfer]

You should highlight just how BAD Willson Contreras is at framing. Easily the worst in the game.

[@simonlea4812]

Soooo can we get a vid about how Jose Molina MIGHT have been the GOAT??🧐