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I disagree on it making the pop time longer if it’s done correctly. Your back foot lands below where you belly button is during the stance, and is sequenced to allow hip opening while the ball is transferred. Ground force created with the back foot is directly related to velocity of the throw. If sequenced correctly, you gain velocity without loosing catch/release time
Gotcha and agree. Jab step was probably a poor choice of wordsUnder the belly button is my preferred spot, too. What I'm talking about is taking a "jab step" (a step forward) with the intent of shortening the throw distance as a time-saving move. Release time is very closely tied to how quickly the body can move. The sooner your feet are on the ground, the sooner you can get rid of the ball. Taking additional time to shorten the throw distance is misguided.
She has a really nice swivel and it’s hard to tell exactly where she is in the sequence, but she looks like her hips are open and she is loaded in the back leg. If so, she should have already seperated elbows up, thumbs downDigging thru some pictures from last year's World Series in Murfreesboro, I stumbled on this one of my DD doing a knee throw before the inning.View attachment 15880
Math has been done many times. Although POP times are a normalized way to measure a catcher against a large data base. The glove to glove is reasonably transferable you the game. It’s all of the “other” contributors that contribute to the 20-25% caught stealing.If these pop times were anything close to what happens in a game, no runner would ever beat a throw to the bag. Do the math and you quickly realize these numbers are not accurate and nothing more than fantasy.