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Reply to "Coaches... If you have several great catchers on your team... which one do you start?"

Blocking.

A is mostly irrelevant in HS. C is nice to have but realistically most stolen bases are on the pitcher in HS. A good catcher will have about a 40% throwout rate. How often do those runs end up scoring? At least the runners have to earn those bags. If you can't block you are just giving bases away. If guys are reaching on strikeouts it is a problem. The runners are going to be safe at second the majority of the time anyway. I can sacrifice 10% to make sure nothing gets by my catcher. 

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