MLB | Skilled Catcher 

I played catcher growing up. This is my jam. Most fun position in baseball...always in the game.

Yadi Molina would have his own highlight video.

Can I just say how much coordination and skill it takes for a catcher to throw to first WITHOUT looking! Like dang mad respect.

As a former catcher, thank you for the props and the love! Of course my knees hurt watching some of those plays LOL, but thank you!

I couldn’t tell if this was skilled catchers or Jose Altuve getting thrown out

Catchers don't get enough credit for all the hard work they do imo

That Joe Mauer behind the back was awesome!

That second clip was amazing, he fooled the runner into thinking he was gonna throw back to the pitcher, then without looking fired the ball to first to get a back pick. Amazing man El Tortuga is an underrated catcher tbh.

Much respect to the position getting thrown at all game. Truly the general of the defense.

5:47 textbook technique! Don’t try to snare the ball with your glove, shift your feet, keep the ball in front of you and take it off your armor. Glanced off the unprotected wrist, which smarts, but it comes with the territory. Also as soon as the ball is secured he’s just eagle eyeing the infield. Beautiful.

As a kid, I was always looking at the catcher. I liked all of the gear they were wearing.

Excelente video. El béisbol definitivamente es el mejor deporte del mundo.... Bonito y elegante. Muchas gracias por compartirlo. Saludos y abrazos desde Colombia.

I never thought much about catchers until my son became one. Good catching wins games. Bad catching loses games -- even more than bad pitching. A good catcher can get you out of innings by picking off runners even when a pitcher is throwing garbage.

No clip of Yadi? That's like keeping Griffey Jr. out of a HR video, or Randy Johnson out of a pitching video...

Not a single clip of Yadi, Yadi, Yadi! “Respect the rank!” says Yadi.

4:00 the best moment, love how the player and ump are thinking: are you really trying to sell a ball in the dirt

Is it just me or does seeing catchers dive and slide so go damn satisfying

As a catcher these were amazing

Aaaaaand this is why you put up with a catcher slashing .220/.270/.310. Cuz at the end of the day, if they can do shit like this ON TOP of being good at game calling and pitch framing, then that's more valuable than a catcher who can hit like a first baseman but lets wild pitches sail right by.

As an outfielder, I just wanna say catchers are the most underrated position

I’m a starting softball Catcher, so the moment I saw this title. I literally taped on the video so fast! 😂

Caught from age 7 through a year of college ball. So fun bringing me back memories of making a lot of similar plays. Got to catch my son's first coach pitch game 2 weeks ago. That was so much fun!!! I could use a MBA, and I still have some eligibility and am still in shape. Hmmm...

Imma let you have your modern day catchers compilation but Buck Martinez making both outs on a double play with a broken leg is the best catcher video of all time, of all time!

3:50 That Was Amazing

0:23 will forever be my favorite! He played it off so well

Honestly, I think what impressed me most in this video was the pitchers hustling to the plate and getting down to block it.

The Joe Mauer in KC behind the net HAS to be on there!

4:08 Angel Hernandez would’ve called it a strike

What no Yadi Molena. You guys make me sick. Most of the catchers in MLB can't hold a candle to him. Always east coast or west coast.

That dive at 2:58 was too cute lol

Catchers, catch the ball

The fact that there are no Yadi highlights, yet a few highlights of Salvador Peres simply throwing a runner out at second makes more mad than it should

I don’t even watch baseball but I’m obsessed with these videos. I used to play my whole life and was a full time pitcher. I don’t know why though, but I’ve always hated watching baseball on TV. I love these though.

Yadiar Molina is the best catcher of all time

Everyone always forgets catcher is the most important defensive position in the game (not SS or CF). It was a pleasant surprise to hear ol Vin Scully 3/4 of the way through the video. I’m a diehard Padres fan but we can all appreciate that man’s greatness

Great to see some catcher action. Thanks.

Baseball like all multiple players pro sports is a “day at a time” business. You never know when you’ll get hurt, sent down, traded, or released. There is always someone younger, bigger, better, faster in line waiting to fill your spot.

The pick off at first was slick

I see Jonathon Lucroy, I click. Also at 4:30 I always laugh at that one, but it looks good, is it in the rulebook that it cannot bounce before getting to the plate?

Archer with the Javy Baez tag. Never thought I'd see that.

More proof that if anyone ever says baseball is boring, I always tell them to play catcher. So much action

one of the most underappreciated positions in sports

No Yadi?

Catcher plays are so goooooodddd

I've always considered catchers the general of the field. Usually the smartest person out there.

7:06 "They're playing bumper pool to get outs now. "

catchers are pure baseball

Yeah just imagine making a video like this without Yadi lmao

0:22 Freaking brilliant. If I was the pitcher I'd buy him dinner that night.

Fantastic tag by Archer

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I have MAD respect for MLB catchers. They are behind the plate calling the pitches, that are thrown at them at close to 80mph if not more, while a grown man is trying to hit it out of the air as hard as they can with a big wooden bat. I was a catcher while I was growing up (8-11 U), it was exceptionally tough considering I was left handed. I quit during fall ball of 11 U when drop 3rd strike came along. It was too hard for me to throw to first while being left handed. I think catching is the most fun, dangerous, involved, and respected position in baseball.

Half of these clips are Jose Altuve getting thrown out and I'm okay with that

1:38 nice slide at home by Altuve

4:22 one of the coolest plays I’ve seen (I don’t watch any baseball by the way)

Yadi has a LOT of highlight vids (my favorite catcher).

😂😂 where did that boi think he was going? 1:15

Not one single Yadi Molina clip, best catcher in baseball

Joe Mauer, best catcher of our time

😉 caught over 2000 games in 28 years and did not lose 150 games..there’s a reason why there are more existing and former managers who were catchers than any other position

One of the hardest positions for your knees.

Rasmus's face at :51 LMAO he was even like WAAT

7:20 feels like an all timer for all the right and wrong reasons

And they put in a highlight of Gary Sanchez?! 😂 That's his only highlight!

Most important position in baseball

4:08 always makes me laugh.

Nice plays

Catchers!!!

Altuve getting hosed: a documentary

Fisk, Gedman, and Veritek❤

These are some great plays but many more that weren’t shown and many great catchers not even shown...

It’s genuinely funny that half of these are on altuve

I love the one highlight Sanchez has ever had defensively was just a lucky play for him haha. Dude stopped the ball with his forearm lol. Not with the glove or his torso like you are taught to do. But because he is so slow he stops it with his forearm. Poor guy

Man Im little league I use to love catching the tipped foul balls

Half the outs are on Jose altuve

7:05 WOW

Johnny bench : Am I a joke to you

0:38 this was just a bobbled two-strike foul tip. I was confused that they thought it was a pop up caught. There were 2 strikes. 1:25 he was outside the base path anyhow. Though he did run inside to start with which gave him some leeway before it was fielded.

Best frames by catchers?

One thing I really miss is going to actual baseball games because I swear I think I met the most boyfriends at baseball games than anywhere else.

1:30. Respect to Altuve for slowing up and not ramming the pitcher

What is the catcher number 25 of texas?

Bro Jose Altuve got thrown out like 3 times 🤣

They call the catcher's equipment the tools of ignorance. But catchers are often the smartest guys on the field. And always the pitcher's best friend.

Thanks

i miss hedges on the pads

catcher and the hot corner are the best two positions. but how is dude in the first clip not required to have a helmet on behind the plate? is there not a rule about the catchers head gear? seems to me if the base coaches have to wear helmets, the guy behind the plate would also.

Really surprised molina wasn't here

i literall see active get thrown out so much in these kinda videos

At 2:34 with Kevin Pillar getting tagged out at third, a pop-up in the top right corner said MLB perfect shot........ Just thinking of the perfect shot to Kevin Pillar's face 😈

Can someone tell me what song/sound is at 1:58-2:00, it triggers flashback and I don't know anything

0:22 - I love how the catcher throws to first, from his knees and still looking at the pitcher... Wow!

Luuuuuuuuuc

0:21 I wish I was like this

Like Tommy Lasorda said, I would take the best athlete on the team, and make him a catcher.

I like this bc I am a catcher going into 10 u

I'm just now learning that carlos santana played catcher

I always forget Carlos Santana came up as a catcher.

Why is no one talking about how amazing of a tag Chris Archer made at 2:05

Serious question !!! How far is a runner allowed to run around the man with the ball in the base line before it's illegal ???