• TIL Softbank Hawks catcher Takuya Kai's career poptime of 1.83 seconds would lead the majors (min 5 attempts to 2B) every year since the beginning of the Statcast Era (2015) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuya_Kai# 5 comments 7/1/2020 baseball
• TIL that, in 1945, the Washington Senators had four knuckleball pitchers in their starting rotation. Catcher Rick Ferrell had 21 passed balls, which was at the time the most in a single season since the deadball era. https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/b1a40f7e 14 comments 21/4/2019 baseball
• [Montemurro] Andrew Knapp is the first catcher to hit leadoff for the Phillies in the live-ball era, which began in 1920, according to Elias. https://twitter.com/m_montemurro/status/1015992842517471232 9 comments 8/7/2018 baseball
• [SNStats] #BlueJays Luke Maile & Marcus Stroman are the first AL catcher / pitcher to hit back-to-back Home Runs since May 9, 1970 (pre-DH era) https://twitter.com/snstats/status/865384861837791232 10 comments 19/5/2017 baseball
• Who is the best catcher in modern era after Mike Piazza? https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/5biqsg/who_is_the_best_catcher_in_modern_era_after_mike/ 96 comments 6/11/2016 baseball
• JT Realmuto Just Hit The First Inside The Park Home-Run By A Catcher Since Damian Miller In 2002. He Is The First Catcher Since The Live Ball Era To Do It In The Playoffs. https://members.tripod.com/bb_catchers/catchers/iphr.htm 32 comments 15/10/2022 baseball
• Only three pitchers to appear for the Red Sox this season currently have an ERA under 4.00. They combine for just 16.1 IP, and one of them is catcher Kevin Plawecki. https://www.espn.com/mlb/team/stats/_/type/pitching/name/bos/table/pitching/sort/era/dir/asc 62 comments 19/8/2020 baseball
• [Stats By STATS] Will Smith of the @Dodgers hit his 10th home run in his 25th career game tonight. He is the first Dodgers player and the second MLB catcher in the live-ball era to hit 10+ HR through 25 career games (also NYY's Gary Sanchez). https://twitter.com/StatsBySTATS/status/1162556983926579200 13 comments 17/8/2019 baseball
• [OptaSTATS] The @Pirates are the only MLB team in the modern era to have 3 different players under the age of 25 notch their first career homer (Liover Peguero), first career win (Quinn Priester) and first career catcher caught stealing (Endy Rodríguez) in the same game. https://twitter.com/optastats/status/1683739290885390337?s=46&t=xToQPyM6leUmkUqEfAh4Mw 11 comments 25/7/2023 baseball
• [Stats By Stats] The Cubs are the first team in the live-ball era (since 1920) to commit a catcher's interference in three consecutive games. https://twitter.com/statsbystats/status/1114672708271378432?s=21 27 comments 6/4/2019 baseball
• [RedsPR] Below is a list of Reds leaders in the expansion era (since 1961) who reached base the most times via catcher’s interference: Pete Rose 19 Nick Senzel 11* Edwin Encarnacion 8 Johnny Bench 5 * 5 times in 2022 Courtesy @EliasSports https://twitter.com/redspr/status/1534307512400453633?s=21&t=sU9CQLEVmVVdxRA1K9lN1w 5 comments 7/6/2022 baseball
• [Passan] Reds were looking for a catcher who could help their young pitching staff alongside Tyler Stephenson, and Trevino fits the bill. Cruz is a strikeout machine whose ERA far exceeds his FIP, so Yankees hope he can be a high-leverage arm. Jackson is a defense-first veteran backup. https://x.com/JeffPassan/status/1870310877288640701 52 comments 21/12/2024 baseball