Baseball and GOALIES

[KevinVu19 0]

I have been watching a lot of (TSN) and they show a lot of diving baseball catches and a lot of powerful home runs. They even have the physically appearance.

If you put them on a pair of skates and start playing hockey, I think some of them will go far. I never know , this is what I think. I can be wrong, I am just a 13 year old boy who watches a little of baseball and a lot of hockey.

If baseball players will turn into goalies

- they can clear the puck out of the zone

- they can glove pucks

- move quick as well

- fast reactions

- etc.

[mack 44]

I have honestly never played with a tendy that also played baseball but there's a large difference between the two sports, obviously. I think if one was good at both sports it'd be more of a coincidence. Then again there may be truth to it as Gomez is possibly one of the worst shortstops ever to have played baseball.

[camhockey16 5]

i know a few people that have played baseball and then played goalie for the first time - and they were horrible except for gloveside.

i think it excellent for your gloveside - maybe just play catch in the offseason to stay sharp?

[DCott 0]

I grew up playing Baseball (infield) and goalie. My strengths were hitting (for avg more than power, so I guess good hand-eye coordination), and fielding, but I didn't have a great arm. I also wasn't a fast runner. So basically I was good at hitting or catching a moving ball. That kind of makes sense.

[Gummer12 134]

Just had to do it... sorry

http://www.funnyordie.com./videos/1485

[strosedefence34 175]

I have been watching a lot of (TSN) and they show a lot of diving baseball catches and a lot of powerful home runs. They even have the physically appearance.

If you put them on a pair of skates and start playing hockey, I think some of them will go far. I never know , this is what I think. I can be wrong, I am just a 13 year old boy who watches a little of baseball and a lot of hockey.

If baseball players will turn into goalies

- they can clear the puck out of the zone

- they can glove pucks

- move quick as well

- fast reactions

- etc.

we play a lot of street hockey over the summer my friends and I. There are two or three of us who have actually played hockey competitively the rest have never touched a stick outside of gym class for the most part. One of my friends who played baseball all through out high school and was pretty good wanted to give his try at goalie, and he was pretty good. The three of us that do play hockey had a tough time getting it past him on basic wrist and slap shots anything up close and breakaways we pretty much scored on unless he got lucky or someone threw a stick at us or we missed. He did make some weird saves though ie: catching righty if the ball was coming low and to the left he would totally reach down all weird and grab it like you would in baseball instead of a simple butterfly. Obviously we are talking street hockey where he was in sneakers so he wasn't on the ice he wasn't wearing crazy goalie equipment just some mylec pads and stuff, but non the less still not bad for someone who has never played hockey or goalie before.

EDIT: Damn wex12 you beat me to it.

[Law Goalie 147]

Fuhr was a pretty high Pirates draft pick - not as high as the Oilers picked him, however. He did say that being a catcher helped him to develop better rebound control (foul tips, pitches in the dirt, etc.) and leg strength, but that most of the benefit was from general athleticism - he could have been playing tennis or soccer or just about any other anaerobic sport.

Mentally, I suspect goalies and pitchers have more in common.

[BGM 0]

My cousin is the goalie on our men's league (very competitive). He was a catcher for A, AA Anaheim Angels and AAA Brewers and has also played goalie all his life since high school. I think there are some attributes such as hand-eye coordination, etc that are similar between the 2. I would have to say that I think catchers are a little bigger than most goalies in weight it seems.

[-brady2 0]

our goalie played 1st on our team, insane flexibility, saved a lot for us.

[McDougalfaschnitzer 32]

I'd say catching would probably lead to more bad habits than it would make you a better goalie.

[FCHC53 0]

I could see as many bad habits and good developing from using baseball to train for hockey. I'd rather have an otherwise great goalie with a somewhat weak glove hand than a guy with a great glove hand who is an otherwise weak goalie. There's just so much more to it than the glove.

You might pull a guy that plays SS and find that he has physical skills that make him a decent goalie, but he'd have those whether he played baseball or not.

[Jarick 5]

I played with a girl who grew up playing softball (catcher I believe). She had a ridiculously good glove and actually picked up the rest of the playing pretty quickly.

[cmvondran 0]

I played baseball (catcher) for years. I know play softball. I normally play RW during hockey. I recently started playing goalie, I have noticed that because of my baseball back ground that I try to catch everything with my glove. It's a hard habit to break.

[Law Goalie 147]

cmv, it's actually a really good habit that's just *slightly* overdeveloped.

If you catch with your left hand, anything to the left of your right nipple and above the level of your belly button can and should be caught. Kipper does this really well, and catching near the midline of the body the way a baseball catcher would is often referred to as a 'Kipper Katch' (by certain lunatics I know).

Anything to the right of your right nipple, you'll be reaching too far over with the glove; if the shot got deflected to the to left, you'd be hosed. Instead, wait for the puck to hit you in the torso/arm, then use your glove to trap/smother the puck against your body. Obviously, if it's on your blocker, just punch it to the corner.

[dcdot377 0]

i play goalie and catch in baseball. catchers do use alot of the same skills like hand-eye, blocking balls in the dirt, popingup to throw a runner out stealing, reaction speed to help catch tipped balls and other things as well. it is also good mentally if you play ball at a competive level that you call pitches that are more than fast and slow or even a curve (aka a ball slow enough that gravity does most of the work) 1st base also when scooping balls in the dirt. but overall the athletes that play multiple sports find taht it is easier to play them as you play more different sports

[-brady2 0]

i play goalie and catch in baseball. catchers do use alot of the same skills like hand-eye, blocking balls in the dirt, popingup to throw a runner out stealing, reaction speed to help catch tipped balls and other things as well. it is also good mentally if you play ball at a competive level that you call pitches that are more than fast and slow or even a curve (aka a ball slow enough that gravity does most of the work) 1st base also when scooping balls in the dirt. but overall the athletes that play multiple sports find taht it is easier to play them as you play more different sports

do you actually think lack of speed makes a curveballbreak?

[BoDangles 0]

i play goalie and catch in baseball. catchers do use alot of the same skills like hand-eye, blocking balls in the dirt, popingup to throw a runner out stealing, reaction speed to help catch tipped balls and other things as well. it is also good mentally if you play ball at a competive level that you call pitches that are more than fast and slow or even a curve (aka a ball slow enough that gravity does most of the work) 1st base also when scooping balls in the dirt. but overall the athletes that play multiple sports find taht it is easier to play them as you play more different sports

do you actually think lack of speed makes a curveballbreak?

Yeah really, speed and gravity have nothing to do why a curveball breaks. Anyone who has pitched before knows it's all in the wrist action and the spin placed on the ball, along with a proper release point.

Also, 98% of the time, hockey goalies make for terrible back catchers, there is very little connection between the two, beside the obvious two of catching and blocking the ball/puck.

From watching the two, I can see where the visual connections are comming for, but once actually played, you can see how totally different the two things are.