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What it Takes to Make the Team: Catcher - Keep Playing Baseball

On an old ABCA  Calls from the Clubhouse  podcast, then Catching Coordinator for USA Baseball’s 14U team, Xan Barksdale, commented, “There’s a lot of good teams that have average catchers […] but no great teams have average catchers behind the plate.” This comment speaks to the importance of the catching position at the college level. Catchers are the most important non-pitching players on the field in the college game. A good catcher can make t…