Andy_W
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Seen cricketers catch those bare handed, which makes it about 5x harder. But even those are nothing compared to some tough ones in the slips, at gulley or silly point etc. Some of the boundary fielding where they catch it over the line and then throw it to their mate, all in mid air are ludicrous.I do find US baseball commentators, often, overhype the athletic prowess of the sport, or is it just me?
I'm comparing it against cricket catches & it just doesn't stack up, imho.. good hustle to get there but they use a freaking big mitt to catch with..
'Are you kidding?' - Mullins takes 'impossible catch'
Watch Cedric Mullins make an "impossible catch" for the Baltimore Orioles against the Minnesota Twins in the MLB.www.bbc.co.uk
Based on that, the USA lot would cream their pants at almost every single cricket catch. It's weird though as the USA lot also watch NFL, and a lot of those catches are much better than baseball ones, see guys catch them one handed every week, about 5 feet in the air.
The best catches in baseball are the ones which basically get nothing said about them, by the blokes stood behind the batter, but they get told which ones are coming, unlike in cricket where the wicketkeeper is clueless a lot of the time.
Compared to footy too, we see people volley the ball on target when it's coming over the shoulder, that's probably the hardest thing to do in football I think, it gets lots of praise, but never enough.