PitchCom Explained by Royals Catcher Carter Jensen #Royals #KCRoyals
All right, Carter, what do we got here? So, this is all the pitchcom stuff. So, I guess starting off, this is kind of the the main little transmitter. Uh, it’s got all these buttons for different pitches. Um, you know, fast ball, two seamer, cutter, slider, curveball, change up. Um, you can hold some buttons and it’ll say a different thing. Um, basically I put this right on my right on my shining guard here just so it’s easy to access. And then this goes inside of my helmet um with a little earpiece so the hitter can’t hear. And then this is the pitcher one goes inside their hat and it’s just like a little speaker basically um and basically whatever I press um we hear it at the same time. So uh it’s definitely very helpful and useful. I like it a lot more than the finger signs. One because it’s a lot quicker. too. It’s just kind of a, you know, runner on second. You don’t get your signs stolen, stuff like that. So, um, I love it. This is like one of the main things when I got to TripleA I was super excited for because using it in spring training all the time. It’s super easy. And then, uh, doublea doesn’t have pitch com. So, um, I mean, I love it. It’s It’s super easy, quick, um, and it works really well. It’s efficient, too. So, and I used to have to wear a wristband to try to like cuz it would have all the different buttons of like what everything was. And it took me a while just kind of looking at that and then pressing it. But now it’s just kind of I have it all memorized. I can just do it without looking and stuff like that. Um, but it’s probably like honestly probably only took two or three games of kind of get used to it and memorize it. And then came back the spring training, big league spring training, used it all spring and it was easy. And then uh came back here and it was like I never left. I already knew it also was easy easy smooth transition for
How does PitchCom work in Major League Baseball? Royals catcher Carter Jensen explains how he calls pitches from this device.
