LH Catchers

The only disadvantage I see for the lefty has to do with receiving. I teach that a catcher's main job is to keep strikes looking like strikes. Best way to do that is to not do anything that makes them look oke a ball.

With that said we all can agree that most batters are right handed. Any pitch on the inside 3rd of the plate to a righty can be easliy handled by a catcher with the glove on the left hand. He is able to slightly shift his weight to the left, keep his thumb at the 3o-clock position, which keeps his left elbow inside his shoulder, and draw almost no attention to the shift to the left for a very common pitch location. When the ump looks over his shoulder he will see straight down past the outside of the glove, and see nothing else untill he sees the plate.

Now....with the glove on the right hand, that same pitch is a backhanded catch. Most catchers tend to allow the glove side shoulder, and knee to rotate towards the ball with the glove. The glove tends to hang over the edge of the plate. From the umps viewpoint their are all kinds of hints that this pitch is not a strike.

That's my take.