#1 pitcher is also #1 catcher

Develop another catcher quickly, assuming he foremost wants to pitch. He can't pitch to himself. Besides, I would rather have a guy do one thing well than two things not so well.. and by the end of the season, he may well be so tired and banged up that may surely be the case.

Even if he can do both well - just way too much throwing

catcher09.. exactly!

I agree. I told my catcher son that if they ever want him to pitch, it's fastballs right down the middle.

Seriously, it is pretty common for HS coaches to use their catcher in the pitching rotation. Catchers often have the strongest arms on the team.

It scares me though. Playing catcher is not a very good way to recover from a pitching start!

We had a D-1 catcher on our high school team that also was a very good high school pitcher. He wanted to continue to pitch but his obviously his future was as a catcher. We used him as a closer. He only threw a few pitches every 2 or 3 games and it worked well.

Wander
That is the right solution. If he is so good as a catcher and so good as a pitcher, and he wants to play both positions, the best solution is to use him as starting catcher and closer.