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The 2026 Women’s College World Series kicks off May 28 at Devon Park in Oklahoma City. With Oklahoma upset and the field wide open, get your complete team-by-team preview, opening day schedule, and the biggest storylines to watch.
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…
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…
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…
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…