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Newbies Susac, Bandy and Pina each have own training techniques

PHOENIX -- Imagine you are a catcher joining a new team, and you have to learn a whole staff of pitchers -- their stuff, their mindsets, their quirks -- all at once. Where do you start?

Pose that question to the three Brewers catchers vying to replace mainstays Jonathan Lucroy and Martin Maldonado, and you get three different answers.

For Jett Bandy, the newest of the bunch, it begins with Xs and Os.

"You just grab somebody and start talking," said Bandy. "'What pitches do you throw? What's your 'out' pitch?