MLB season has nearly reached the All-Star break, and a powerful catcher sits alone atop the home run leaderboard. Seattle’s ...

The rule was implemented this year in large part, because of the season-ending injury suffered in May 2011 by San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey in a violent home-plate collision.

CLEVELAND — Before every start, Roberto Perez likes to ask Indians first base coach and former catcher Sandy Alomar Jr. which umpire will be behind the plate for that particular game. Sometimes ...

Patrick Bailey’s entrance into the Major League Baseball record books began with a tight swing that sent a fastball from ...

sports Rangers What Texas Rangers, MLB catchers learned from controversial ruling at home plate The Rangers are moving on from the reversed call vs. the White Sox, but have to find a lesson in it ...

Major League Baseball and its players have banned most home plate collisions but left open an exception if the catcher has the ball and is blocking the runner's direct path to home plate.

If the Padres are really looking for an offensive boost, then they should definitely give the A's a call about their ...

Catchers in baseball catch a lot of baseballs during their time behind home plate. The simple name of their position indicates just that. And while they catch a lot of baseballs, the majority of ...

Will Davis’s toughness has been much needed this year. Due to injuries to his fellow catchers, Davis has been behind the plate for all but nine innings through 23 games, sitting out just one game due ...

He recalled with fondness an old drill in which the catchers on the first few days of spring training practiced working on home-plate collisions.

Redshirt senior catcher Matt Halloran, who’s expected to be the team’s regular backstop, only caught one game because of an arm injury. As a result, Austin Athmann was put into the lineup as a ...