Max Scherzer on Friday continued an exercise he began in his first start of the exhibition season, when called about a quarter of his own pitches, though he couldn’t identify the exact number.
Such logistics are possible through PitchCom and MLB’s decision this season to allow pitchers to wear the signaling device on their gloves.
“I’m letting [Tomas] Nido call the game, it’s just when I want to throw a certain pitch in a certain situation,” Scherzer said. “And it works. You could tell they were ready for me to work quickly today. You can use that to your advantage in speeding up and slowing down the game.” Nido told The Post he doesn’t envision others following the Mets co-ace’s lead in that regard.
Carlos Carrasco joked that Chris Bassitt, who pitched for the Mets last year and was notorious for shaking off the catcher, would probably be calling all his own pitches under the new rules. “I think right now I am just going to leave it to the catcher,” he said. “I didn’t have any problem with Nido last year, so every pitch he called, I just went with. I don’t know how I am going to work with [Omar] Narvaez, but as of right now, I am just going to follow the catcher.
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