1-3-6 Pickoffs / Pickoff - caught stealing
It's great that pickoff/caught stealing are a part of the game but they should almost always be 1-3-6 or 1-3-4. By definition a pickoff that ends in a caught stealing happens because the runner made a break for second. In turn, the first baseman is not going to be catching up to a guy who already has a running start on him. So it becomes a game of pickle and that means that the guy manning second will almost always get the put-out on the play.
I've seen them happen a couple times and the opposite seems to be the case: the runner is always put out by the first baseman as if they dived back to the bag but didn't get there in time.
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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
You bastard.... 
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