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Don't listen to your catcher.
I've been playing almost exclusively with catchers who have A and B+ "call game" ratings and the pitches they call for are ridiculous. Breaking pitches up in the zone, fastballs out over the plate, changeups right down the middle of the plate... even the payoff pitches are crazy. Last year if you landed a successful payoff pitch inside the strike zone it was almost always a swing and a miss (or, less likely, a fly out or ground out). This year you can throw a perfect payoff pitch in the zone and it'll get crushed. This year a lot of full count payoff pitches are also outside the zone, which means even if you land the payoff pitch perfectly, you're likely to walk the batter.
So, to make a long story short, don't listen to your catcher.
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