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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 5090387, member: 27"] Teams are encouraging catchers to creep closer and closer to the batter to help them do a better job framing pitches and stealing strikes. A Met broke the arm of the catcher on the Cardinals not long ago on a follow through gone wrong. I think Nido was called for catcher’s interference twice in the game last night. I consider those near misses. You boded to see that called once a year. Now it happens all the time. This has to stop. Make a catchers box (I think there is one already), and position it far enough away from the batter boxes so the catchers can’t get hit by a follow through. Monitor this closely annd enforce staying in it by called a ball every time the catcher positions himself outside the box. Do it now before someone gets killed trying to steal a couple of strikes a game. [/QUOTE]