1. Catchers are like tight ends in fantasy football, a necessary evil.
2. Check that, they're worse, we don't have to have two tight ends.
3. No catcher eligible player has scored even 70 runs this year.
4. No catcher eligible player is in the NFBC top 100 rankings.
5. Only 10 catcher eligible players rank between 100--300.
6. I told you they were a necessary evil.
7. Girls don't like that Joe Mauer has to wear a mask, they prefer that the Molina's wear one however.
8. New game at Fenway for those sitting behind the backstop.
See how many baseball names can be made from the name facing them,S-a-l-t-a-l-a-m-a-c-c-h-i-a-.
9. Buster Posey has more home runs than Joe Mauer.
10. Two Detroit catchers may be among the top five drafted next year.
11. Any Astro's catchers may not be among the top 100 drafted next year.
12. Thanks for giving Victor over 20 starts at catcher, Jim Leyland.
13. Toronto teammates have knocked in JP Arencibia 21 times.
He has knocked himself in 20 times.
14. Buck, Olivo, and Suzuki are tied for fifth among catcher eligible players with 410 at bats.
None rank in the top 10 of catcher eligible players.
15. Best catcher name- Buster
16. Worst catcher name- Posey
17. 20 catcher eligible players have more at bats than Mike Napoli this season.
All of them rank lower than Napoli.
18. The two Detroit catchers are tops among all catcher eligibles in batting average.
19. Jeff Mathis has something on Mike Sciosia.
20. In two at bats Monday, Jesus Montero hit two homers.
In 275 at bats, Joe Mauer has the same, two homers.
21. With a .324 average and 82 rbi, Victor Martinez will take two legs of the catcher eligible 'triple crown'.
His nine homers may be what many remember though.
22. This will be the third year in a row that Martinez leads all catchers in rbi
23.Russell Martin's eight stolen bases tops all catchers.
24. Last year, Jason Kendall's 12 led the way.
25. Don't tell Dayton Moore, he may re-sign him.
26. Over the course of 'player' Mike Sciosia's playing career of 13 years, he only hit 68 home runs. Five a year on average.
Looks like 'Manager' Mike Sciosia wants the same kind of production.
27. Geo Soto has zero sacrifice flies and zero sacrifice bunts.
Selfish sombitch.
28. Rod Barajas has the right idea for a catcher.
He has hit almost four times as many fly balls (161) as ground balls (46).
29. Ramon Hernandez hits .340 vs. lefties.
But, all 11 of his home runs have come against right handers.
30. During the early part of the 20th century, it was normal to give nicknames reflecting body type or a characteristic.
Walter Blair caught for the Yankees during the dead ball era. His nickname was 'heavy'.
If this form of nickname still exists today, Bengie Molina's nickname would have to be 'Slow'
Giving us Bengie Slo-Mo-lina.
Never mind, it was funnier in my mind than print.
31. Some folks were wishing for a .299 average from Kurt Suzuki when drafting him this year.
That, is his on base percentage. Ugh.
32. Alex Avila's on base percentage is almost 100 points higher at .391
33. Buster Posey had 18 bb's in 162 at bats before his injury.
Yorvit Torrealba has 372 at bats, yep, he's walked 18 times.
34. XXX gay adult title-
'Catcher in the Guy'
(Please, no PM threats)
35. Gene Tenace given name was Fiore Gino Tennaci.
Americanized, it was Fury Gene Tenace.
Fury would have been cool.
36. Almost 50 years ago, Tim McCarver and Bob Uecker were catchers for the St. Louis Cardinals.
37. If Victor Martinez is VMart, why isn't Russell Martin RMart?
38. How many times has Joe Mauer had more than 15 homers in a season?
Answer will be at the end of this post.
39. Earl Battey (great baseball name), caught for the Twins during the 50's and 60's. One of the few black catchers at the time of his arrival, he would go on to have three years with more than 15 home runs.
40. So far this season, 10 catchers have at least 15 home runs.
41. Trick trivia question.
How many players are in fair territory when the game begins?
Most, automatically reply 'nine', forgetting the catcher is in foul territory.
42. This will be the first year that Brian McCann will not reach 130 games played since becoming a regular.
43. Coming in to this season, Jeff Mathis had a lifetime batting average of .199
He hasn't improved it.
I heard he's a fine defensive catcher though.
44. Yadier Molina IS a fine defensive catcher.
45. When Pudge Rodriguez was asked if he took PED's back in the day, he responded, "God only knows."
Really, Pudge?
46. When Brad Ausmus was signed to a big contract by the Houston Astros, he was welcomed by Jeff Bagwell, who said, "You got that much?
Dude, you're not even that good!"
47. Brad Ausmus career average was .251 and over the course of 18 years, he hit 80 homers.
48. Bagwell was right.
49. Best catcher that was hardly seen?
Josh Gibson.
50. Ted Simmons.
The most under rated catcher.
Eight times over 90 rbi.
12 times having 10 or more homers.
.285 lifetime batting average.
Whew!
I am glad this post is over!
It became work after awhile!
Joe Mauer has hit more than 15 homers just once.
He has only hit double figures twice.
'Catch' you later...
[ September 07, 2011, 07:27 AM: Message edited by: DOUGHBOYS ]
two is easy; one is not