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Reply to "How often are college freshman asked to redshirt?"

Not sure how common this is at other schools, but I had the opportunity to have a very candid conversation with a D2 RC. We were talking about catchers and their roles at that school (If I remember right your son is a catcher Francis7 so you may find this interesting). At his D2, the freshman catcher/s is "normally" used as the Bench/Bullpen catcher. Get all the benefits of practicing with the team, but normally end up redshirting their first year. They are on the roster, at all of the home games, and travel if one of the two starters is injured, or unable to travel for some other reason. Exceptions to this would be Very big bat, or a starter gets injured and the Fr gets a lot of game time, or the Fr ends up being better then the catchers already there. He had said, exceptions do not happen often. 

Like I said, this came from just one RC, I just found it interesting. 

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