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But in recent decades, the workload of top major league catchers has gradually increased, and the top ten career leaders all made their major league debuts after 1968. Iván Rodríguez [3] [4] [5] is the all-time leader in games played as a catcher, playing 2,427 games at the position. [6]
James Timothy McCarver (October 16, 1941 – February 16, 2023) was an American professional baseball catcher, television sports commentator, and singer. [1] [2] He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1959 to 1980 for four teams, spending almost all of his career with the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies.
Consequently, players who are left-handed rarely play catcher. Left-handed catchers have only caught eleven big-league games since 1902, [14] and Jack Clements, who played for 17 years at the end of the nineteenth century, is the only man in the history of baseball to play more than three hundred games as a left-handed catcher. [15]
MLB catcher Danny Jansen made history Monday when he became the first player in league history to play for opposing teams in the same exact game. Here's how.
He also ranked sixth in American League history with 114 times being hit by a pitch. Freehan caught more games than any other player in Tigers' team history. [22] In his book, The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, baseball historian Bill James ranked Freehan 12th all-time among major league catchers. [23]
Johnson now lives in Miami with his wife Rhonda. They have two sons. Brandon, who is a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL) [24] and former college football wide receiver for the University of Tennessee, and Beau, who plays college football as a tight end for Georgia Southern University.
John J. Clements (July 24, 1864 – May 23, 1941) was an American professional baseball player. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball for 17 seasons. Despite being left-handed, Clements caught 1,076 games, almost four times as many as any other left-handed player in major league history [1] and was the last left-hander to catch on a regular basis. [2]
Harry Dominic Chiti Jr. (pronounced / ˈ tʃ iː t iː / CHEE-tee) (November 16, 1932 – January 31, 2002) was an American catcher in Major League Baseball. He appeared in 502 games over all or parts of ten seasons between 1950 and 1962 for the Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Tigers and New York Mets. Chiti batted and threw right ...