My son has been a OF for his entire high school career (with a little work at 2B). Yesterday his team had a fall game. The Head Coach was gone and the Asst Coach was running things. The Asst is much looser and easy going.
So, in between innings, our C was getting his gear on, so my son went out to warm pitcher up. I went and got my stopwatch and timed his thrown down at a 1.98.
Now, I know this is not an earth shattering time, but when he threw it down I saw slight delay and some poor arm motion and he did not get out of his crouch early. That was the first throw down he has had in 4 years (he played some C pre-high school).
We talked about it after the game and my son asked if he should start working on catching skills to help with recruiting.
So, would a position change to C be worth him considering? and how significant is a pop time for recruiting purposes? I am assuming the time would improve at least somewhat. He knows it's late in the game, but perhaps this could help his recruiting if he can get a lower pop time.
Thanks in advance.
P.S. For Catchers out there, I in no way intend to diminish how difficult it is to be a catcher, nor implying that a switch would be easy.
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