# @reagainz1 on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DaleKhsR1LU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67582165-reagainz1-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/7387afbbe1.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09T20:37:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Reagan Glanz (@reagainz1) — https://gondola.cc/reagainz1

## Caption

Vote YES or NO🤷🏻‍♀️ Here’s my opinion👀⬇️

For this reel I purposely picked a lot of frames that were pretty clearly balls and probably shouldn’t have been called strikes. So to my friends hitting in these clips... your eyes were correct😂

I’ve had a few people comment on some of my videos before saying that framing is cheating. Today I was filming content and ended up going down a rabbit hole looking at MLB catcher videos and I saw the same argument everywhere.

So here’s my take:
Receiving and framing is a fundamental skill of the catching position. It’s been part of the game forever. It’s not something catchers just recently started doing, it’s something that has always existed, but the way we analyze it now has gotten a lot more advanced.

At the MLB level, teams literally track pitch framing because of how valuable it is. There was a study done that elite catchers can save their team around 10-20 runs in a season just through framing borderline pitches. That’s a big deal!!
To put that in perspective, about 10 runs saved equals roughly one win in the standings.

So yes, framing absolutely impacts the outcome of games.
A lot of the argument I see is that framing is “deceiving the umpire.” But the reality is umpires know framing exists. It’s their job to judge where the pitch crosses the plate, not where the catcher catches it.

And at the end of the day, umpires are human. So if a catcher can present a pitch in a way that helps their pitcher get a strike call... we’re absolutely going to try to steal that strike.

Because stealing strikes means:
fewer walks, fewer hitters counts, fewer runners on base, fewer runs scored

Receiving and framing can literally change the outcome of a game.

“It’s not going to matter when ABS take over” … Sure, but ABS hasn't entered high level softball yet. and when it does it’s not going to completely replace every call the umpire makes. so until then I will continue to frame myself and teach the catchers in my programs to steal strikes as well.

So in my opinion...
Framing isn’t cheating, It’s just apart catching

#softball #baseball #catcher #catchers

## Stats

- **Views:** 0
- **Likes:** 2,394
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 55

## Tags

catcher, softball, catchers, baseball

---
Copyright (c) Gondola