re: Whoever started coaching catchers on 1 knee

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What about the way our catchers give the target, then they drop their mitt to the ground, and then bring it back up fast to catch the ball?
What is the purpose of doing that?

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I do know the answer to this.

It presents a constantly moving target to get more strikes called by umpires. It gives a short amount of more time to allow a catcher to frame borderline pitches and coerce umps to call them strikes. If a catcher frames during the pitcher's motion and the ball comes in off target, but still a strike, the ump may think the pitcher missed his spot and call it a ball.

It's all to get over on the umpire calling balls and strikes.

There's a good YouTube video out there somewhere that breaks it down. I watched it a couple years ago when I noticed mlb catchers doing this.