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Originally Posted by Number4
No. Those people are the world's best at their job. They are however still human, and a good catcher can exploit the inherent weaknesses of human perception.
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Cather's know their job is to get strikes for their pitchers. They've been framing pitches so borderline calls might go their way since the day baseball was invented. And there's some cardinal rules about framing that no experienced catcher would violate.
Further, good catchers know that they have be diplomatic with umps if they want to get the calls. That means disagreeing with calls without showing them up. My personal style was to say to my pitcher, "Good pitch, keep throwin' that" or words to that effect. No one got their feathers ruffled and the next time he threw the exact same pitch he was liable to get the call.