30 Day Baseball Challenge: Favourite Player
∟Yadier Molina
“’Watch the way Yadi receives balls, how soft his hands are,’ Wainwright said. ‘There’s nothing violent. If he catches a ball that’s below the zone, he’s never pushing it down. He’s always gently receiving it. He’s going to pull it up to the zone ever so slightly, or he’s just going to stick it. And he has those soft hands, so there’s no jerking.’”
“He sets up his target as wide as he can, puts the target right in the middle of his body, and he doesn’t move. A lot of catchers, you’ll see them give you the target and then drop their glove for a little bit and then pull the target back up. So if you’re a pitcher like me that follows the glove, you’re trying to hit a moving target as opposed to a very still glove, which is a lot easier to do.”
Wainwright, who jumped into Molina’s arms to celebrate the final out of the 2006 World Series, smiled and added, ‘Little things.’”