Stats - to play devils advocate then, should a coach call steal signs? I get how a hit and run should be called, a sac bunt or a suicide squeeze since multilpe players would be affected,
I do think coaches should teach and catchers and pitchers to think for themselves and call the game, but I do think it is a process and players get it at different times in thier journey. My son as a senior was allowed to shake off anything, that was not true as a sophomore. it happened little at a time. As a junior, his catcher called the game for most part because he was a 3 year varsity starting catcher This years cather was, also, a senior, but had little epxerience so pitching coach called pitches.