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It can be bad. Last year, the senior starting catcher for my son's high school, started having the same problem. He started in the middle of a game partway through the season and never fully recovered although he did get better. More than once, with a runner on third, he made a bad throw that let the run score. It got so bad that he finally took to jogging out to the pitcher's mound and handing the ball to the pitcher (if no one was on base). He not only threw the ball over the pitcher's head, he threw it into the ground no more than five or ten feet in front of himself.

Very sad to see as this kid is a great kid and an enthusiastic player. Unfortunately, even though he was being recruited by some junior colleges and one or two small four year schools in the area, he gave up baseball and no longer plays.

On the lighter side, all his teammates (who had seen Major League) volunteered to run out and buy him Playboy and other such magazines to help him get over the problem. His parents declined on his behalf!
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