And again, you see something in Dye. He doesn't make the high throw. Dye, like all kids with superior arms, used to love throwing the ball to the catcher on the fly. It's a show-off thing. Nothing gets a crowd more jazzed than watching that ball fly in from right field and smack into the glove.
Trouble is, that throw sometimes goes over the head of the catcher.
Or it flies way down the third-base line. It's hard to make a good, accurate throw like that. Worse, when you air-mail the ball, it allows all the other runners to move up at least one base. All that is kid's stuff. No, the best throws are low throws, the throws that would hit the cutoff man in the head, the throws that hit the ground, catch the dirt, spin forward and shoot into the catcher's glove.