Baseball scandal

[DaveC426913]

I'm hearing in the news about this scandal involving signals being routed from catcher to the opponent's dugout and back to the batter. If you're not familiar with it, grab a paper.

Here is my naive question about baseball in-general:


Why is it the catcher that is telling the pitcher what ball to throw? What does the catcher know about the batter that the pitcher doesn't?

And why hasn't this practice evolved so the pitcher is in-the-know about the batters?

 

[(Q)]

Simple, if the pitcher shows the signs, the batter will see them. The catcher keeps showing signs until the pitcher decides which sign to take by nodding his head.

 

[Janus58]

I'm hearing in the news about this scandal involving signals being routed from catcher to the opponent's dugout and back to the batter. If you're not familiar with it, grab a paper.

Here is my naive question about baseball in-general:


Why is it the catcher that is telling the pitcher what ball to throw? What does the catcher know about the batter that the pitcher doesn't?

And why hasn't this practice evolved so the pitcher is in-the-know about the batters?

The signals don't have anything to do with the catcher knowing more about the batter. As already stated, the catcher keeps showing signals until the pitcher nods. This back and forth between the two is so that the catcher will know what type of pitch to expect.

 

[wegs]

I learned something new as I wondered this myself. They should have a do over since the Astros can’t really claim the win, since this all came to light.

 

[DaveC426913]

Simple, if the pitcher shows the signs, the batter will see them. The catcher keeps showing signs until the pitcher decides which sign to take by nodding his head.

Thanks but that doesn't really clear up my confusion.

The signals don't have anything to do with the catcher knowing more about the batter. As already stated, the catcher keeps showing signals until the pitcher nods. This back and forth between the two is so that the catcher will know what type of pitch to expect.

Ohhhh. OK, so it's more that pitcher and catcher need to be in sync (so the catcher doesn't miss and uh ...do an error). Not so much to do with the batter.

 

[sideshowbob]

Seems pretty silly to make a "scandal" of it.