MLB 2025 Season

[Leonardfan]

Yea, Cal Raleigh has emerged as one of the best catchers over the last 3-4 seasons. I think he’s been obscured by the Mariners lack of recent success. Check out his homers, RBI and WAR over the last 3.5 seasons. Elite for a catcher.

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PS - he’s really improved this year across the board. The higher average, which maybe due to a decrease in strikeout rate.

Raleigh has really been under the radar. That's a really impressive 4 season run for a catcher. Glad to see his batting average has made a jump to respectable .268 so far this season. I will say the unfusion of White talent back into the game over the past decade or so has been a pleasant surprise. I'd wager alot of that has to do with the White kids just deciding early on to dedicate themselves to baseball year round - do all the camps, play on travel teams etc.

I can recall for several seasons (from the late 90s to the 2010s) it was almost forbidden to have a White playing catcher or the middle infield. Lots of caste speak revolved around those positions. Nice to see gains being made in a sport that we frankly don't follow enough on this site.

 

[Snow Plow]

Great season by Cal. Another break out catcher has been Dillon Dingler of the Tigers. He’s hitting .293 with 6 HRs and a 1.7 WAR. Check out this throw…