Framber Valdez Just Hit His Own Catcher Intentionally With a Pitch

Cross-ups are an unfortunate thing that used to be a relatively common problem in Major League Baseball. Every couple games, there would be a misunderstanding that would involve the pitcher and catcher not being on the same page with a certain pitch type being delivered. But this has largely gone the way of the dinosaur after the introduction of PitchCom, as these two parties now communicate directly, making it hard to cross up anyone. But we not only just saw one of these nearly extinct instances, but it seems it may have been done intentionally as a means of a hurler getting revenge on his game caller. Fron Valdez was on the mound in a two nothing game with the bases loaded and one out. And on a two-2 to John Carlos Stanton, he’d punch out the ready on a racing change up or sinker, I’m not exactly sure which, putting him one out away from getting out of trouble entirely. But it was then on a 1-0 to a player that’s been clutch all year, Trent Gisham, that Faldis grooved a fast ball right down the middle, seeing it crushed out to left field into the Crawford boxes, extending New York’s lead to a much safer six to nothing. That was Gisham’s third grand slam of the year so far, by the way. Now, on the surface, this seems like a pretty routine sequence, right? a pitcher just missed with his spot. But if you go back to the Houston broadcast, you can see his catcher, Caesar Salazar, telling him to step off before he even delivered the offering. Yet, the lefty just went ahead and did so and paid the ultimate price. This is obviously a stubborn move on his part, but if this is where things ended, nobody would be talking about it. But you see, just one pitch later, we would see Salazar get handcuffed by a 93 mph sinker right down the middle of the plate with the catcher’s immediate reaction being a stare out to the mound, which prompted Valdez to turn with an exasperated look on his face and walk behind the mound. Look at Caesar’s reaction as he goes to deliver a new ball to the hurler. It certainly seems to me like he was peeved. And it’s not like Fram’s apologetic either, never even approaching his catcher to check if he was okay. And in case you might think this is a little soft of a request, consider what former professional catcher and current quality content maker Eric Sim had to say being quote, “If he did this on purpose after the catcher told him to step off, but instead refusing then giving up a grand slam, f him.” Especially when offspe is called and throwing a sinker. I had a torn ligament on my thumb from one of those and was out for a year. Especially when you have the kind of movement Frame does. You absolutely cannot be doing things like this in any circumstance. Period. True psycho behavior. And of course, he would claim after the game that it wasn’t intentional because I mean, what was he supposed to say? I had an outburst and hit my catcher with a pitch intentionally. Of course not. But just based on his body language and pretty much every pundit’s response to this, including former Major League player Dallas Braden, who believed it was 100% intentional, I think it’s pretty safe to say it was. So, this is going to go down as one of the all-time scummy teammate moves we have on video. And yeah, it’s hard not to see it affecting his incoming free agency in one way or another. The Yankees would go on to close this one out by a final score of 7 to1, saddling Valdez with a well-deserved loss as New York proceeded to overtake the Astros in record, which means with a hard charging Red Sox right behind them, if Houston doesn’t manage to secure their tentative lead on their division, they could very well end up not making the playoffs at all. All right, everybody. If you made it this far, I appreciate you watching. And if you did, consider checking out any of these other videos on your screen right now for other content just like this. Also, if you ever see anything you’d like to see me detail in the video, feel free to reach out to my email [email protected]. And if I end up using your idea, I’ll give you a shout out. Thanks for watching. Have your rest your

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42 comments

  1. Man, I'd drop all kinds of pitches from this loser forever. What a weakling and fool. These are the types of people that shouldn't be in the majors of any sport. Past ball, past ball, dropped strike 3 with no throw to first

  12. Valdez is a menace, can't control his temper.
    The team will do nothing to discipline him, nor provide anger management, and this severe and aggressive behavior will return…… sometime in the future.

  13. 1000000% did that shit on purpose and even if he didn’t? He didn’t act like a teammate whatsoever about it. If I did that on accident? I would have ran up to dude like can’t believe I did that! You ok bro?

  19. There's bush league………and then there's this. The fact that he didn't immediately check on his catcher and turned his back is a tell that it was intentional.

    I don't know A) How you get your teammates to ever trust you again if you're Valdez, B) How the manager didn't pull Valdez immediately, even in the middle of an AB, C) That this can be chalked up to "I'm a competitor and my emotions got the best of me"

    No. Just………no

  26. I’ll continue saying it: pitchers have gotten way too used to not being served some humble pie. Back when they had to be on the line up without a DH, they were on the bottom of that list and learned not to bean unfairly or get hit in return.

    Time for pitchers too high up on their horses to be put back in the lineup and actually have to try some offense.

  31. As his Manager, I would have removed Valdez IMMEDIATELY from the game, and fined him! No excuse for that! It was clearly intentional! And then, the coward turned his back on his own catcher! As the catcher, you HAVE to confront that in private! You have to!

  36. The catcher should have continued towards the mound and fired the ball into the pitcher's torso. Then confronted him. Valdez hit his teammate intentionally and didn't try to hide it. I was furious when I saw this.

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