Word: catchers
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...post-season MVP this summer and should be the first Ivy player selected in this year’s draft. Sophomore right hander Ross Ohlendorf—last year’s Ivy Freshman of the Year—may be the league’s top starter. Senior catcher Jon Miller (.351-1-18) has been their best offensive weapon this season...
Coach Walsh is not the only one who recognizes the talent of the “BB&N connection.” Senior catcher Brian Lentz got a good look at Farkes this past summer when the two played in the Boston Intercity League...
...feels like a bonus,” says Lentz, the senior catcher on the Harvard baseball team. “A second chance to come back, it’s nice. You have a chance to come and play college baseball again, go to school, do all the things that you like...
...that this should make him an ineffective catcher. Lentz’ right arm, even if weaker than in past years, is still better than what most catchers work with every day. Eighty or ninety percent of the speed to second once displayed by arguably the best underclass catching prospect in baseball is still pretty good...
Besides, as Lentz will note, controlling a game from behind the plate is about more than just having a cannon. “It doesn’t have as much of an impact on what you can do as a catcher as a lot of people think,” Lentz says. “There are plenty of ways to get the ball to second base. It doesn’t have to be at 99 miles per hour. The smaller things, the less noticeable things you do as a catcher as far as framing and receiving pitches...