Pop Times

[Hoover'sDad]

What are good pop times for a high school catcher? Home-1st and Home-2nd?

[Hoover'sDad]

I guess no one has a good catcher!

[fasterpitch92701]

1.95 for HS, 1.80 - 1.85 for travel ball.

[fasterpitch92701]

by the bye, that assumes no cheating, a game situation, not "rise up out of a squat during practice and make a throw without a batter to an area within a quarter mile of second base". It also assumes your throw is 24" above the ground, 2-3 feet to the first base side of second base.

[nohesitation]

We time our catchers glove to glove using a pitcher and have the catcher in the crouch position and get times from 1.6 to 2.0 in 16u. A good drill is to make it more game like. Catcher with full gear, batter in the box with protect bunt on, pitch different locations and put your fastest runners at first going on the pitch.

[fasterpitch92701]

Considering that Rosie Neill (Stanford), one of the best in the NCAA... doesn't have a 1.6, your times are impressive...

[nohesitation]

Considering that Rosie Neill (Stanford), one of the best in the NCAA... doesn't have a 1.6, your times are impressive...

I guess those gals are slow’n down in there old age.

[nohesitation]

No really how accurate can you be with a stopwatch? I timed one of our catchers two weeks ago and got times from 1.68 to 2.1 on 5 throws. What did you get when you timed your catchers?

[Hoover'sDad]

Home to 2nd, I got several in the sub 1.85 area. Home to first, was sub 1.68. A 1.62 was the fastest. Have timed the throws several times, because I was filming it for a neighborhood girl.

[msda8]

1.95 for HS, 1.80 - 1.85 for travel ball.

I have heard this too...anything under 2.0 from home to second is suppose to be good...and under 1.80 really good...anyone know what the average college catcher times are?