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The MLB average pop time is 2.01 seconds. [4] A pop time of less than 2.0 seconds affords the pitcher 1.3 seconds to throw the ball to the catcher. [5] Salvador Perez's 1.74 pop time during a 2017 throw was considered "stretch[ing] the boundaries of the position". [6] Austin Hedges led MLB in pop time in the 2017 season, with a 1.86 second ...
Yadier Molina, the leader in all-time putouts by a catcher. The catcher is a defensive position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his/her turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the (home) umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. In addition to these primary duties, the catcher is also called ...
He played 41 games at catcher, four at DH, four as a pitcher, four as a pinch runner, two as a pinch hitter, and one in left field. [53] He had the 7th-best average pop time to second base of all major league catchers, in the top seven percent, at 1.91. [54] [55] He was on Philadelphia's 2022 World Series roster, though he did not play. [56]
MLB's top 10 catchers In recent years, the role of the backstop in baseball has evolved . It's no longer about simply providing offense and being able to throw out baserunners.
For the 2016 season, Sánchez played in 53 games for the Yankees with a .299 batting average, 20 home runs, and 42 RBIs. On defense, in 2016 he had the best average pop time to second base (1.90 seconds) of all major league catchers. [26] He finished second in the voting for AL Rookie of the Year, behind Michael Fulmer. [27]
He had the best career caught-stealing percentage of any major league catcher, at 45.68% (versus a league average of 31%), and he had nine seasons with a caught-stealing rate of 50% or higher. [3] Only one major league catcher (Yadier Molina) has more putouts. Rodríguez recorded 2,844 hits in his career, the most of any catcher in MLB history.
After intermittent playing time in 2020 and 2021, he broke out in a big way in 2022, with his first All-Star season as a part-time catcher for the Braves alongside Travis d’Arnaud.
[26] [27] [28] On August 13, he caught Ezequiel Duran of Texas trying to steal, to send the game into extra innings, with the fastest pop time (1.71 seconds) to second base recorded by an MLB catcher so far in 2023; it was the fastest pop time to second base by a Giants catcher under Statcast (from 2015), and he had each of the top 14 pop times ...