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Reds paying more attention to pitch-framing

Wochit

GOODYEAR, Ariz. – Over the offseason, Tucker Barnhart studied film. Not of the Cincinnati Reds pitchers he’d be catching, nor of opposing pitchers he’d be facing. He watched his fellow catchers.

Barnhart had the front office cut up video of him of several of the league’s top defensive catchers. He watched perennial MVP candidates Yadier Molina and Buster Posey. He watched former Reds farmhand Yasmani Grandal, and he watched Venezuelan backstops Miguel Montero and Francisco Cervelli.

To the untrained eye, they do things differently. Posey has a squared stance, both toes pointed toward the mound.