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Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:48 am to Hogules68
Dave Duncan had a good run.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 7:11 am to DivotBreath
Johnathan Bench deserves it based on his baseball bunch TV series alone.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 7:21 am to SagesSon
quote:
And those great catchers CALLED the game, not a dugout dude - manager.
I'm pretty sure in pro baseball the catchers still call the game, not the managers.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:03 am to Hogules68
I've always had this long-standing theory that the drop-off in American catching talent over the years has been due to the rise of popularity of football. Catchers and quarterbacks have very similar traits (arm strength, size, build, intelligence) required to be successful. All of the best athletes with those traits chose baseball over football in the '50s and '60s because baseball was king. When football started to overtake baseball in the '70s, all of those athletes stuck with football particularly with quarterback being such a glamor position. Don't think it's a coincidence that there was all of these great quarterbacks born in the early '60s (Elway, Marino, Kelly, Young) while the last great period of catchers was with catchers born during the '40s and '50s.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:19 am to Bench McElroy
Good offensive catchers get moved to other positions because organizations know the clock is ticking on their knees and legs once they strap on the catcher's gear.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:00 am to Hogules68
I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.- Sparky Anderson
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:16 am to TigerintheNO
Ray Fosse was on his way before the Pete Rose collision in the All Star game
Posted on 6/18/24 at 2:00 pm to Hogules68
Question… are personal catchers still a thing for some pitchers???? Think Eddie Perez for Javy Lopez when Greg Maddux pitched, and I’m pretty sure Pedro had one too
Posted on 6/18/24 at 2:05 pm to Stevo
Bruce Bochy, what was his timeframe in the league?
Bob Brenly
Scioscia - was the 80's
Catchers turn into great managers as well
Bob Brenly
Scioscia - was the 80's
Catchers turn into great managers as well
Posted on 6/18/24 at 2:20 pm to TheHarahanian
quote:
The 70s were absolutely the golden age of facial hair in MLB.
True. You don't see facial hair like this very often.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 3:09 pm to Bench McElroy
Yogi Berra was hardly a NFL QB type. LOL.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 3:14 pm to Hogules68
80's were pretty good also
had several of those with new ones, like:
pena
santiago
kennedy
whitt
sundberg
sciossa
boone
biggio
gedman
davis
levallia
steinbach
surhoff
had several of those with new ones, like:
pena
santiago
kennedy
whitt
sundberg
sciossa
boone
biggio
gedman
davis
levallia
steinbach
surhoff
Posted on 6/18/24 at 5:27 pm to OWLFAN86
quote:
Munson doest belong with those guys ,, he was by all accounts a wonderful man which means more but all the others listed were better
Top 5 WAR by C, 1970-1979
1. Bench 58.9
2. Thurmon Munson 45.7
3. Ted Simmons 39.9
4. Carlton Fisk 35.8
5. Darrell Porter 25.5
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:03 pm to MSUDawg98
I'm still amazed at Tony Pena's stance.
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