[Grampa Dave]

“Crazy thing to me is that with 5 pitches in the 104-105 range the batter STILL managed to put wood onto 2 of them for fouls.”

Buster Posey, the Giant all star catcher and excellent hitter does better with the really fast pitchers who are fanning his team mates.

A younger relative, who also was a catcher with really good eyes, was a good hitter on fast balls. He said playing catcher gave you good training on where the ball was probably going and how to watch the pitcher before and at the actual pitch.

[Fido969]

But many catchers are poor hitters.

[Tallguy]

I would say that Buster Posey, like most good hitting catchers, is a better than average situational hitter. The Mets light-hitting catcher Jerry Grote used to eat Steve Carlton alive in late inning at-bats with runners on. I always thought catchers read pitchers better anyway.