Daniel Jackson: No Catcher Had Ever Done This
Georgia catcher Daniel Jackson swept five major 2026 college baseball awards and made Division I history with 32 HR and 26 SB in one season.
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A Catcher Just Made SEC History — Here’s What That Means for Your Game
No catcher in Division I history had ever done what Daniel Jackson did this spring. Decades of college baseball, hundreds of thousands of at-bats. . . imagine every great catcher who came before him — and none of them had done it. Not from behind the plate. Daniel Jackson stepped into the 2026 SEC season…
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The New Catcher Rule You Need to Know Before Your Next Tournament
Little League changed a rule for 2026, and if you coach a catcher — or you are one — it matters. Here is the change. In tournament play, and in any game using the continuous batting order, you can now use a courtesy runner for the catcher of record before that catcher has finished mandatory…
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Cooper Ingle Is Making Numbers That Don’t Look Real
A Triple-A catcher is posting historic plate discipline numbers — and the lesson transfers directly to your next at-bat. Cooper Ingle is a catcher in the Cleveland Guardians’ Triple-A system. Through his first 54 plate appearances of 2026, he has a wRC+ somewhere north of 260. If you don’t know what wRC+ means, here is…
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What Does a Pop Time of 2.0 Actually Mean?
The pitch pops as the ball thumps your new mitt. Now, the timer is running. From the thump through the exchange and the throw, until the ball arrives at the base — that is your pop time. The best catchers in baseball do it in under two seconds. The Major League average is exactly two…