Greatest Catcher in Baseball History

One day Bench's wife informed him that she had turned down an offer from Hustler magazine.

"Why?" Bench reportedly said. "It's good money."

 

And he let more passed balls get behind him than Greg Goldberg did hockey pucks in his District 5 days.

 

Piazza is horrible defensively. He's an embarrassment to the position. He should've played first base or been a DH in the AL. Roy Campanella and Mickey Cochrane belong on the list before Fisk or Rodriguez. As far as who the best is? I like Bench, but his lifetime batting average of .267 is a problem.

 

Gibson for offense, Schalk for defense, Gary Carter for the total package.

 

Ivan Rodriguez is the best in my lifetime ... next to Wiki Gonzalez.

 

Gibson or Berra...both are incredibly deserving. And I never knew about Berra's shockingly low strikeout stats. Thanks for sharing.

 

Why, Marc Sullivan, of course.

 

"Hey fucktard what about Choo Choo Coleman?" /spnitted

 

Gary "Teeth" Carter

 

No - its Gary "red light" Carter

 

Mickey Cochrane anyone?

 

It's between Bench and Berra and, as a lifelong Yankees hater, I voted for Yogi.

As for Piazza's defense...he couldn't throw out anybody's grandmother, or great-grandmother, even, but he was not nearly as bad as some of you make him out to be in other phases of catching.
As for Rube's stupid comment that "he let more passed balls get behind him than Greg Goldberg did hockey pucks in his District 5 days." consider:

Piazza: 1629 games, 102 PBs (1 per 16 games)
Fisk: 2226 games, 129 PBs (1 per 17 games)
Rodriguez: 2039 games 111PBs (1 per 18 games)

And just for laughs, a really bad defensive catcher who has a better rep in NY that Piazza because he throws out a lot more runners:
Jorge Posada: 1369 games, 123 PBs (1 per 11 games)

FYI, Yogi had 76 passed balls in 1899 games; Bench 94 in 1742 games