Thread: So the voting so far is not as close as I thought it was going to be. Quick feet/Transfer (sorry @under2catching ) has ran away with it over arm strength. This is something I dove into today. Tons of great comments from everyone. I believe arm strength is the key. https://twitter.com/CoachRix8/status/1245781572424544258">https://twitter.com/CoachRix8...

Looking at the data on poptimes in the 2019 Season you can see some interesting things. First the average velo in & #39;19 was 81.3 mph The two pictures are the top and bottom throwing velocities. This is a minimum of 15 throws stolen base attempts. Top was 88.6 and the low was 73.4

Moving onto the exchange. Best was .63 and the worst was .83. The league average was .72 of the guys with the min amount of throws.

Lets see how this plays off to pop time. Best time was a 1.88 and worst was 2.14. Not biased but everyone (99%) will agree Realmuto is the #BCIB League average shocking was a 2.01.

I believe and have seen improvements in arm strength while implementing the @DrivelineBB throwing programs with the players at Post U. In this day and age in player development its not unusual to see velo jumps while doing a throwing program whatever that might be.

It should be "easier" to gain 3-5MPH and positively effect your pop time rather than going from a .78 to a .69 Tenths of a second are a lot harder to come by than velocity in the correct training environment. I think both exchange and arm strength is important.

@drivelinebases broke this down in this article from 2018 https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2018/10/catchers-voyage-towards-velocity/">https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2018/10/c...
While I think both is important to build the total catcher, I wouldn& #39;t neglect working on arm strength. Plus when is throwing hard not cool? Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.