No other position in sports is like it. A catcher must be a quarterback, a goalie and a point guard, all at once. It’s a plunge deep into the psyche of pitchers. It involves discerning opposing batters’ weaknesses better than they know them themselves.
It all leads to a timeless, nine-inning job interview with the umpire hovering like a gnat right behind them. A positive answer? A grunt from creating the illusion that a sphere about 75 millimeters in diameter, spinning nearly 2,000 times per minute in unpredictable directions, flied over the edge of an 18-inch pentagon. A negative answer? A failed magic trick resulting in nothing but the hum of the crowd, spewing like water out of a showerhead.

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Omar Narvaez handles the Dash’s primary catching duties. (Jody Stewart/W-S Dash)
The voyage is an interminable class, only every night brings with it a final exam. It’s endless studying on a subject they’ll never know everything about. And it all starts well before first pitch.
Catching is a demanding position, both physically and mentally. But the most important aspect of the position probably isn’t hard they can hit the ball, how accurate their arm is, how quickly they can transfer the ball into their throwing hand or how strong their forearms are to stick pitches on the corner.
More than anything else, a catcher must simply take a vested interest in the man standing 60-feet and six-inches away, on a 24-inch rubber atop 10-inch pile of dirt.
“Golfers have caddies, and it’s that same kind of relationship,” says Chicago White Sox catching coordinator John Orton. “Where you’ve got to make that guy feel good about himself, know what he can and can’t do, know what kind of phrase you need to go out there with when you do a meeting on the mound, if it’s someone you’ve got to fire up or someone you’ve got to calm down.
“Those are the biggest things. If you care, you’re going to do all those little things to help that pitcher get through the inning, get through the game. That’s what makes the difference over the course of a long season.”
The long season stretches all the way to Spring Training, on the tiny back fields across Arizona and Florida. And maybe that’s important to remember; every game, offense comes and goes. You get three, four, five at-bats and make the most of them.
But defense? For catchers, it’s a constant grind. It consumes them, even when they’re not on the field.
“When I’m not playing, I talk a lot with them (the pitching staff),” says Dash catcher Omar Narvaez. “We cover all the situations so we already know what we’re going to do.”
But sometimes talking can be difficult. Winston-Salem has players that hail from 13 different states and three different countries. It’s a mishmash of languages, dialects, accents and mentalities. So how does an English-speaking catcher like Jeremy Dowdy communicate with the hurlers on the staff who only speak Spanish?

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