Vahn Lackey 2026 MLB Draft: Johnny Bench Award Winner
Vahn Lackey won the 2026 Johnny Bench Award and is projected top-2 in the MLB Draft. Here’s what his catcher development path teaches young players.
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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…
