No one loves a good debate quite like baseball fans, and with that in mind, we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on each player's career with that franchise. First up, catchers. These rankings are for fun...
His passion and drive on the field are evident in his every snap, and his ever-growing list of impressive performances continue to establish him as one of the league's premier pass-catchers. 31 276 votes Bob Johnson Age: 78 As the first-ever draft pick in franchise histor...
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No one loves a good debate quite like baseball fans, and with that in mind, we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on each player's career with that franchise. We've tackledcatchers,first basemen,second base...
Grandal enters his 11th big league season in 2022. Despite a midsummer knee injury, the veteran backstop managed to clear the 20-home-run mark for the fifth full-length season in a row in 2021. In an era where offense is often an afterthought for catchers, Grandal's steady production at...
Shohei Ohtani has mashed 100 mph fastballs for homers, stolen bases against some of the game’s best catchers and recently wrapped up one of the best regular seasons in Major League Baseball history. Now the Japanese superstar and his Los Angeles Dodgers have to face something that...
Shohei Ohtani has mashed 100 mph fastballs for homers, stolen bases against some of the game's best catchers and recently wrapped up one of the best regular seasons in Major League Baseball history.
Teams just don’t work catchers as hard as they did a generation ago—or even a decade ago. From 2000–09 teams used their catcher 130 games in a season 31 times. In the next decade, 2010–19, they cut such incidence almost in half, to 18. ...
Moreno hit .284/.339/.408 for a104 OPS+with 19 doubles, seven home runs and 50 RBI, and his 4.3 WAR wastied withAdley Rutschman for the MLB lead among all catchers. He also became the first rookie backstop since Charles Johnson with the Florida Marlins in 1995 to win Gold Glove honor...
But first, some background: I served in front offices of major league teams for a quarter of a century, 15 of those years as a senior VP/GM. During that time, my responsibilities included studying free agents and the risks that come with them -- including age, injuries, makeup/character...