Mlb Catcher Breakdown | Salvador Perez & Curt Casali

a couple established big Leaguers who've made similar changes throughout their career Salvador Perez and Kurt cide both early in their career caught two feet very balanced and traditional secondary stance however they both move to a right knee down stance one working around the bottom of the zone is so much easier when you're grounded and have leverage underneath it and winning strikes is quantifiably how a catcher adds the most value to a baseball game at the highest level second whenever they blocked off two feet they kick their feet straight back for the most part but if you pause it the ball almost always hits them in the glove and neither knee is on the ground when the ball gets to them so if you're going to glove it why not just glove it from a knee anyways third being offensive over the course of 162 Game season is pretty challenging if your legs are dead go to a knee be able to hit Kirk Cai seems to have a lot of range off his right knee one thing that helps him do it is if you watch him put weight into his foot that allows him to drive left and right a good cue that I like to use is you should be able to step up out of your stance at any time if you're sunk too far back and down and you can't get up then you're stuck but if you have enough weight into this foot whether it's under you or kicked out then you should be able to stand up that's a good test can you get up from your right KNE down stance when salador Perez first went to a right knee down stance he seemed to have trouble at the bottom of the Zone statistically speaking now he's doing much better here's a drill that you can use that's very very helpful to spin up a really slow curveball or have somebody throw something it's very slow we're overemphasizing having to be patient because if we get above the baseball too soon then we got to go down to catch it once we go down to catch it it's going to take us with it so dial up the slow curve ball go ahead and my mission is to stay patient patient patient patient and then catch so if I come up too soon I'm going to have to go down first so I'm going to focus slow patient and then I'm going to go