I loved the reds when I was a kid. I grew up going to those games. I must have had the entire team’s autograph on bats and shirts and balls ten different years. Johnny made me be a catcher for a few years in little league. In tee ball they made a really stupid rule that you only got a double if you hit it over the fence because a few of us would just hit home runs as often as we could because we wanted to be Johnny. Thank god I moved up to little league the next year and only had a half season of that nonsense.
He had the greatest arm that I have ever seen. It was a missal from home plate to second base. What a hitter. He is without a doubt the best catcher of all time. And a lot of fun to watch.
Yogi was an incredible dirty ball hitter, and an incredible October performer!!! The man hit a home run , on the first pitch, of his first series game. He won 10 world series in 17 years as a player, what! Added another being a phenomenal manager. Finally, he caught 119 double headers, and those yogiisms are absolutely priceless, and timeless.
My top ten would be: 1. Johnny Bench 2. Ivan Rodriguez 3. Yogi Berra 4. Gary Carter 5. Mickey Cochrane 6. Bill Dickey 7. Mike Piazza 8. Buster Posey 9. Gabby Hartnett 10. Thurman Munson It's all highly subjective. Catcher is one of the hardest positions to rank.
Yeah no. He's a very good catcher, but Yogi won 3 MVPs and has 10 rings, Munson was better than Bench from 1969-1979, Pizza is the greatest hitting catcher in history, Bench is a better defender and hitter than Yadi. Buster Posey he may be better than, maybe Gabby Hartnett, I know the name, but I don't know the numbers.
Bench had a cameo appearance in one of my favorites 1970s TV shows, The Partridge Family, playing a poolside waiter serving a drink to David Cassidy. 😂
I remember when Johnny bench was named the All-Star team and I was in Little League and I actually played for the reds when I was 9 years old and Johnny Bench was my hero so I decided to be number five and to play catcher. So number five was my number all through sports. I still put that number on my race car.
I was at Johnny Bench day and his last game. The man was loved in Cincy and was everywhere. BTW, there was a rumor at the stadium that on his last start he'd play EVER position...didn't happen..haha.
My father lived in cincy area in 1972. He bought a 1966 chevy pickup. Looked at owners manual. It was owned by Bench father when came to Cincinnati from Oklahoma
He was very good all around player as well as a catcher. I also remember a Roy Campenalla, Carlton Fisk, and a Yogi Berra. There have been many good catchers as well as their being an all around player. I've seen quite a few.
After his lung surgery in 1972 he never hit 40 HR in a season again, Johnny said a couple of ribs had to be removed and he was never the same player again.
I remember like it was yesterday when I saw the picture of Johnny Bench HOLDING 7 BASEBALLS IN ONE HAND!!! HE REINVENTED THE CATCHERS GLOVE AS WELL TO SPARE POSSIBLE BROKEN FINGERS DUE TO FOUL TIPS!!!
@@davidd5407 Well you need glasses then. When a man has only 65 more strike-outs than home runs for a 19 year career the debate is over before it's even begun. For his career, Berra batted . 285, with 358 home runs (not all at catcher) and with 1,430 RBI's. Bench had a career batting average of . 267, hit 389 home runs (not all at catcher), and drove in 1,376 runs.
My older brother got a Johnny Bench Batter Up in the late 79s. The concrete base had to weigh 75 pounds. I wonder if it is still in the backyard of the house I grew up in? It was mixed in a wooded area. Playing with that was dangerous when the rusty metal pole would swing up straight!
Bench hit 45 home runs in 1970, not 40. My ex-brother-in-law sent me some stamps and 1968 baseball cards from his parents' Sarasota, FL home a number of years ago and among those cards is a Johnny Bench rookie card. Although I've been a Mets fan since 1968, and still kick myself for giving away a Nolan Ryan rookie card in 1973, I'm going to hang on to that Bench rookie card.
Get a different joke Angel was actually above average behind the plate. He was only bad when it came to highly noticeable mistakes as a field umpire. Even then he was above average, it just so happened, when he did mess up, he did it spectacularly and usually in a game changing way.
Ted Simmons finished in the top 10 in either batting average, on base percentage, or OPS 15 times. The next closest Hall of Fame catcher 9, 3rd 6. Marvin Miller referred to Ted as the smartest player he knew. Just wanted Ted to get some notice. Imagine if he had played for the Yankees, the gravitas he would have. And, yea, Johnny was amazing.
I personally always thought Mickey Mantle was the biggest what if. He tore his knee up in 1951, never got it repaired and played his entire career on a severely damaged UCL. So Mantle, in many peoples top ten, did it all on one good knee. Imagine what he does if he has two healthy knees. Maybe he doesn't turn to alcohol as a painkiller and his career lasts even longer than the 18 years it did. He may have hit 800 HRs on healthy knees.
I would say that Bench was the catcher who had the biggest impact on the position, but it is really hard to say that he is the best of all-time. I am NOT saying an argument cannot be made, just that there are some great catchers who also defined the position as top-tier. JMHO
Nothing against johnny bench but I would say he is the greatest of all time. There are afew others who could play the game just as well. Even in his era there was Fisk and Pena. Today's era there are Rodriguez and Molina. It's always helpful when your on a dominate team as well.
@@JeffFrederick-ty5ip When a man has only 65 more strike-outs than home runs for a 19 year career the debate is over before it's even begun. For his career, Berra batted . 285, with 358 home runs (not all at catcher) and with 1,430 RBI's. Bench had a career batting average of . 267, hit 389 home runs (not all at catcher), and drove in 1,376 runs.
I tend to be the type of guy that thinks multiple sports are getting too soft these days. But that play at 9:22 is straight up not baseball. Some things really do change for the better.
Remember people...Bench had lung surgery in Dec. 1972. After that he a split second off with the bat. so he became merely became a superstar catcher. instead of a godly catcher. In the post season only one runner stole on him, mickey Rivers, when they didn't care, no throw. I saw him play for years....Absolutely the best! No offense to Munson, but the NL had more base stealers than the AL.
Meh. Johnny Bench was okay. Yogi Berra was more of a winner. And I am not a Yankees fan. That's just a fact. Roy Campanella was also great. Without that stupid accident, I think Bench would have been behind Campy. But I do think Thurman Munson was as good as Bench and just did not get credit for it.
I'm old enough to have seen Johnny in his prime, before and after his bad muscle tear injury. Johnny Bench is the gold standard. His leadership, knowledge, all the intangibles put him at the top. Maybe Benito Santiago had a similar arm. Piazza had better offensive numbers. Bench is the total package.
@@kirkprospector4958 😀😀😀😀 I wrote it in the 2nd minute but am too lazy to delete it! You’re the first to call me out so let’s see how many do! Have a good Sunday!
@@TheDondajonhon46 When a man has only 65 more strike-outs than home runs for a 19 year career the debate is over before it's even begun. For his career, Berra batted . 285, with 358 home runs (not all at catcher) and with 1,430 RBI's. Bench had a career batting average of . 267, hit 389 home runs (not all at catcher), and drove in 1,376 runs.
Yogi berra played for 17 seasons His stats are unbelievable. As they say, you can look it up.he played in 14 World Series, winning 10 .The big red machine won 2 world series. Bench was great ,no doubt about it, but compared to yogi Yogi, hands down!
The 56.4% caught stealing rate for 1970 almost matches Roy Campanella's career percentage. Bench was probably the GOAT catcher until MLB decided to recognize Negro League statistics. That decision immediately thrust Josh Gibson into the GOAT discussion, not at catcher, but overall.
@@jimbob9828 If you don't think the Negro League stats should count, your argument is with MLB, They forfeited the length of season argument iin 2020 when a 60-game MLB season was ruled to be a full season for all statistical purposes
Love Yogi, love Pudge, Thurman is MY Captain.,....Bench was just different behind the plate. I reads....,BEST CATCHER!!!...,....Yogi's accomplishments individually stand alone!! He was not Bench behind the plate. Purge was as close as I have seen still a little below. Then there are the suspicions of PED use........
Easily the best catcher to ever play the game. Those who don't say that never saw him play. 10 times the catcher Yadier Molina was.....and Molina was a helluva catcher
Bench was the greatest all-round catcher, period. It’s too bad he didn’t have a longer career. Sparky Anderson used him upwards of 150+ games a season, which took a toll on Johnny. If he wasn’t so overused, he would’ve been playing into his 40s instead of retiring at 36.
When a man has only 65 more strike-outs than home runs for a 19 year career the debate is over before it's even begun. For his career, Berra batted . 285, with 358 home runs (not all at catcher) and with 1,430 RBI's. Bench had a career batting average of . 267, hit 389 home runs (not all at catcher), and drove in 1,376 runs.
@@fourltrman Fine. Give Yogi Berra the all-time Silver Slugger award as a catcher. But Yogi failed to win a single Gold Glove in the 7 full seasons he played, when the award existed. Bench won 10 straight GGs. He had the stronger throwing arm. As I said, Bench is the greatest ALL-AROUND catcher.
Yadier Molina was best I ever saw and have watched baseball since 1956. Having seen Molina , Bench, and Rodriguez in all of there careers That I rate them withn Berra close to Pudge. i
Not just the rings. When a man has only 65 more strike-outs than home runs for a 19 year career the debate is over before it's even begun. For his career, Berra batted . 285, with 358 home runs (not all at catcher) and with 1,430 RBI's. Bench had a career batting average of . 267, hit 389 home runs (not all at catcher), and drove in 1,376 runs.
Best catcher. Not hardly.Yogi Berra by far. Similar statistics except Bench struck out three times as often. And the biggest one of all. Yogi Berra TEN time World Series Champion! Maybe best NL catcher?
Bench was amazing. But Munson was better in almost every defensive categories. More games caught. Assists. Runners thrown out. League leader in assists. And isnt Catchers job primarily defense? Offensively Munson had more hits. More triples. More 300 seasons. And 25 more points lifetime batting average. Bench had more home runs. But if they switched stadiums, he wouldn't even have that advantage. Munson was better. Arguably the goat.
@@sbskking Well maybe he bought the writers gifts. Because Munson's defensive stats were better in every single category. Read my post. And his batting average almost 30 points higher to boot. Most liked. Most publicized. Doesn't make a player better.
@@jimbob9828 Munson had a career batting average of .357 in the postseason, and a World Series batting average of .373. Lifetime 292 hitter. Bench had a career batting average of .267. Munson also better in almost every defensive category. Munson by far the better hiter and defensive catcher. Bench was great. But overrated.
Johnny Bench HR at home: 195. Johnny Bench HR on the road: 194. Thurman Munson career HR total: 113. JR career DWAR: 19.7. TM DWAR: 11.9. What are you even talking about?
Give me a break! Not even in the top 5. Played in a baby ballpark. Jerry Grote should of won all those gold-gloves. Way better defensively & could call a better game.
Ivan Rodriguez was better hands down... He has 13 gold gloves, which is the most ever for a catcher. 14-time All-Star. 311 career HRs with a 296 career average..7 silver sluggers and is also 1st in MLB history in hits at the catcher spot and 1st in MLB history in runs at the catcher spot. He is 2nd all-time in put-outs only behind Molina. He caught until he retired and is 1st in MLB history in games caught. He hit .315 over a 10 year span in his career while winning an MVP and a WS ring. The most impressive thing about Pudge is he is 8th All-time in defensive WAR among guys like Ozzie Smith, Cal Ripken Jr, and Brooks Robinson. He is the ONLY catcher even in the top 10 among MLB history's greatest defenders. His ability to hit for average and power, mixed with his top-notch defense and longevity make him probably the best all-around catcher to ever do it....Bonus fact Pudge is also the only catcher to ever hit 20 or more HRs while stealing 20 or more bases in the same season.
This is going to be a controversial opinion I am sure. But I don't care. I think Bench is over rated. I think we place way to much emphaisis on his ability to throw out base runners and his power hitter, which declined rapidly after he had a surgery on his lung. He was a good catcher but he was not a great catcher. Yogi Berra and Roy Campenella were as good if not better. Pudge Rodreiguez was as good as bench although he shared Bench'es weakness for calling games. Yadi Molina was as good if not better. Heck I saw catchers back in the seventies who were just as good as bench if not Better. Thurman Munson AND Carlton Fisk.
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Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan were my childhood heroes. Makes me grateful to have grown up when I did. I got to see them play several times.
me too!
I loved the reds when I was a kid. I grew up going to those games. I must have had the entire team’s autograph on bats and shirts and balls ten different years. Johnny made me be a catcher for a few years in little league. In tee ball they made a really stupid rule that you only got a double if you hit it over the fence because a few of us would just hit home runs as often as we could because we wanted to be Johnny. Thank god I moved up to little league the next year and only had a half season of that nonsense.
My goat as a catcher. I got to visit Cinci this summer and visited their team museum. Outstanding collection of Bench stuff it was amazing.
He had the greatest arm that I have ever seen. It was a missal from home plate to second base. What a hitter. He is without a doubt the best catcher of all time. And a lot of fun to watch.
Johnny Bench? Why not Johnny Starting Lineup? 🤔
Yogi was an incredible dirty ball hitter, and an incredible October performer!!! The man hit a home run , on the first pitch, of his first series game. He won 10 world series in 17 years as a player, what! Added another being a phenomenal manager. Finally, he caught 119 double headers, and those yogiisms are absolutely priceless, and timeless.
That signing bonus was robbery. That equals to about $50,000 today. Most guys in the first and second rounds are getting six figures now.
Man you really killing it with this channel. Its come so far from when i first found it. Keep growing my guy.
Great video and tribute to the one and only, Johnny Bench. Baseball was great growing up in the 1970s.
My top ten would be:
1. Johnny Bench
2. Ivan Rodriguez
3. Yogi Berra
4. Gary Carter
5. Mickey Cochrane
6. Bill Dickey
7. Mike Piazza
8. Buster Posey
9. Gabby Hartnett
10. Thurman Munson
It's all highly subjective. Catcher is one of the hardest positions to rank.
Yadier Molina is better than everyone you listed except for Ivan Rodriguez
@@aloysiusdevadander19 Not a good enough hitter.
Yeah no. He's a very good catcher, but Yogi won 3 MVPs and has 10 rings, Munson was better than Bench from 1969-1979, Pizza is the greatest hitting catcher in history, Bench is a better defender and hitter than Yadi. Buster Posey he may be better than, maybe Gabby Hartnett, I know the name, but I don't know the numbers.
@@aloysiusdevadander19 Keep dreaming.
Bob Uecker?
I grew up with Johnny live right across the river in Kentucky he was the greatest I was nine when they won the world series in 75 this town went crazy
Bench had a cameo appearance in one of my favorites 1970s TV shows, The Partridge Family, playing a poolside waiter serving a drink to David Cassidy. 😂
I remember when Johnny bench was named the All-Star team and I was in Little League and I actually played for the reds when I was 9 years old and Johnny Bench was my hero so I decided to be number five and to play catcher.
So number five was my number all through sports.
I still put that number on my race car.
YOGI BERA
If you don’t understand this fact, you don’t know baseball. It’s not even close.
Nobody cares about Yogi Berra!
@@TheDondajonhon46 because I know nothing about Base Ball
Who
...was the 2nd greatest catcher of all time.
johnny was the best catcher ever and the big red machine had him the last nl team to win back to back W S in 1975 and 76 almost 50 years
I was at Johnny Bench day and his last game. The man was loved in Cincy and was everywhere. BTW, there was a rumor at the stadium that on his last start he'd play EVER position...didn't happen..haha.
My father lived in cincy area in 1972. He bought a 1966 chevy pickup. Looked at owners manual. It was owned by Bench father when came to Cincinnati from Oklahoma
He was very good all around player as well as a catcher. I also remember a Roy Campenalla, Carlton Fisk, and a Yogi Berra. There have been many good catchers as well as their being an all around player. I've seen quite a few.
After his lung surgery in 1972 he never hit 40 HR in a season again, Johnny said a couple of ribs had to be removed and he was never the same player again.
Great video. I love the pop in his bat. Modern day, i take Joe Mauer.
Stupid take
@@aloysiusdevadander19hey! Be nice to gravychunks! Mauer is his dad.
I remember like it was yesterday when I saw the picture of Johnny Bench HOLDING 7 BASEBALLS IN ONE HAND!!! HE REINVENTED THE CATCHERS GLOVE AS WELL TO SPARE POSSIBLE BROKEN FINGERS DUE TO FOUL TIPS!!!
The feud between Rose and Bench continues on.
Uh Not Anymore! 🙄
I'll take Yogi.
Berra is #1. Bench #2.
Other way around.
I saw both.
@@davidd5407 Well you need glasses then. When a man has only 65 more strike-outs than home runs for a 19 year career the debate is over before it's even begun. For his career, Berra batted . 285, with 358 home runs (not all at catcher) and with 1,430 RBI's. Bench had a career batting average of . 267, hit 389 home runs (not all at catcher), and drove in 1,376 runs.
Bench best of all time.
My older brother got a Johnny Bench Batter Up in the late 79s. The concrete base had to weigh 75 pounds. I wonder if it is still in the backyard of the house I grew up in? It was mixed in a wooded area. Playing with that was dangerous when the rusty metal pole would swing up straight!
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Bench was invincible - along with Pete Rose, the 1975 Reds were simply the best
Josh Gibson. 💯
Bench hit 45 home runs in 1970, not 40. My ex-brother-in-law sent me some stamps and 1968 baseball cards from his parents' Sarasota, FL home a number of years ago and among those cards is a Johnny Bench rookie card. Although I've been a Mets fan since 1968, and still kick myself for giving away a Nolan Ryan rookie card in 1973, I'm going to hang on to that Bench rookie card.
My dad’s favorite player. ❤️
No! Josh Gibson my dad saw both. He told me bench couldnt carry Gibsons ba.t
I watched him throw out a guy stealing 2nd base still the catching position. That’s power
Yogi!
Who?
That pitch they rang him up on during the fake intentional walk was so far outside! Wow looked like Angel umping.
Get a different joke Angel was actually above average behind the plate. He was only bad when it came to highly noticeable mistakes as a field umpire. Even then he was above average, it just so happened, when he did mess up, he did it spectacularly and usually in a game changing way.
Guess no never heard of a guy named Yogi? I clicked on this just to write that.
No disrespect, but, uh, Yogi Berra?
Who?
Absolutely!!
When Willie Mays says you should be starting it is like God expressing his opinion.
Look at what Yogi Berra accomplished before making ridiculous statements.
Yogi Berra has got to be the Best Catcher of All Time in MLB History.
No
Ted Simmons finished in the top 10 in either batting average, on base percentage, or OPS 15 times. The next closest Hall of Fame catcher 9, 3rd 6. Marvin Miller referred to Ted as the smartest player he knew. Just wanted Ted to get some notice. Imagine if he had played for the Yankees, the gravitas he would have. And, yea, Johnny was amazing.
Thurmond Munson a name many have forgotten. Research him. He will surprise you.
I came for the pic of the BRM. Now THAT was a lineup.
you should a video on possibly the biggest what if ever, eric davis
I personally always thought Mickey Mantle was the biggest what if. He tore his knee up in 1951, never got it repaired and played his entire career on a severely damaged UCL.
So Mantle, in many peoples top ten, did it all on one good knee. Imagine what he does if he has two healthy knees. Maybe he doesn't turn to alcohol as a painkiller and his career lasts even longer than the 18 years it did. He may have hit 800 HRs on healthy knees.
I would say that Bench was the catcher who had the biggest impact on the position, but it is really hard to say that he is the best of all-time. I am NOT saying an argument cannot be made, just that there are some great catchers who also defined the position as top-tier. JMHO
Nothing against johnny bench but I would say he is the greatest of all time. There are afew others who could play the game just as well. Even in his era there was Fisk and Pena. Today's era there are Rodriguez and Molina. It's always helpful when your on a dominate team as well.
The greatest catcher of all time is clearly Yogi Berra. No one is close to Yogi's World Series Championship performance are unparraled.
Yogi played on a great team
@@JeffFrederick-ty5ip When a man has only 65 more strike-outs than home runs for a 19 year career the debate is over before it's even begun. For his career, Berra batted . 285, with 358 home runs (not all at catcher) and with 1,430 RBI's. Bench had a career batting average of . 267, hit 389 home runs (not all at catcher), and drove in 1,376 runs.
@@fourltrman yeah I’ll agree Yogi was decent
@@JeffFrederick-ty5ip Yea if Yogi was only "decent" then Bench was mediocre.
@@fourltrman you take that back. JB invented catching
Yogi Berra...... not even close........
Thurman Munson! The Greatest!
I tend to be the type of guy that thinks multiple sports are getting too soft these days. But that play at 9:22 is straight up not baseball. Some things really do change for the better.
You're just soft.
Remember people...Bench had lung surgery in Dec. 1972. After that he a split second off with the bat. so he became merely became a superstar catcher. instead of a godly catcher. In the post season only one runner stole on him, mickey Rivers, when they didn't care, no throw. I saw him play for years....Absolutely the best! No offense to Munson, but the NL had more base stealers than the AL.
He’s the best. Feel like he’s underrated today.
Meh. Johnny Bench was okay. Yogi Berra was more of a winner. And I am not a Yankees fan. That's just a fact. Roy Campanella was also great. Without that stupid accident, I think Bench would have been behind Campy. But I do think Thurman Munson was as good as Bench and just did not get credit for it.
Johnny Bench couldn’t hold Yogi Berra’s jock!
Nah yogi berra then munson then bench
True, but my favorite is Rick Dempsey.
I'm old enough to have seen Johnny in his prime, before and after his bad muscle tear injury. Johnny Bench is the gold standard. His leadership, knowledge, all the intangibles put him at the top. Maybe Benito Santiago had a similar arm. Piazza had better offensive numbers. Bench is the total package.
How would you rate Pudge Rodriguez compared to Bench? Just curious since you actually got to see Bench play.
Pudge was amazing. Johnny Bench was not from this planet.
Josh Gibson was not only the best catcher in history, he was probably the best baseball player in history.
Benches upbringing in rural Oklahoma mirrors that of another superstar-Mickey Mantle!
wow almost like that's mentioned in the first four minutes of the video!!
@@kirkprospector4958 😀😀😀😀 I wrote it in the 2nd minute but am too lazy to delete it! You’re the first to call me out so let’s see how many do! Have a good Sunday!
Yogi Berra is the greatest catcher ever.
Until Bench came along
@@TheDondajonhon46 When a man has only 65 more strike-outs than home runs for a 19 year career the debate is over before it's even begun. For his career, Berra batted . 285, with 358 home runs (not all at catcher) and with 1,430 RBI's. Bench had a career batting average of . 267, hit 389 home runs (not all at catcher), and drove in 1,376 runs.
There already is.
His name is Cal Raleigh
Who?
There will never be another Johnny Bench. Nor will there ever be another Jeanne d'Arc.
Yogi berra played for 17 seasons
His stats are unbelievable. As they say, you can look it up.he played in 14 World Series, winning 10 .The big red machine won 2 world series. Bench was great ,no doubt about it, but compared to yogi
Yogi, hands down!
The 56.4% caught stealing rate for 1970 almost matches Roy Campanella's career percentage. Bench was probably the GOAT catcher until MLB decided to recognize Negro League statistics. That decision immediately thrust Josh Gibson into the GOAT discussion, not at catcher, but overall.
Little league averages should count.
@@jimbob9828 If you don't think the Negro League stats should count, your argument is with MLB, They forfeited the length of season argument iin 2020 when a 60-game MLB season was ruled to be a full season for all statistical purposes
Love Yogi, love Pudge, Thurman is MY Captain.,....Bench was just different behind the plate. I reads....,BEST CATCHER!!!...,....Yogi's accomplishments individually stand alone!! He was not Bench behind the plate. Purge was as close as I have seen still a little below. Then there are the suspicions of PED use........
Easily the best catcher to ever play the game.
Those who don't say that never saw him play.
10 times the catcher Yadier Molina was.....and Molina was a helluva catcher
Bench was the greatest all-round catcher, period. It’s too bad he didn’t have a longer career. Sparky Anderson used him upwards of 150+ games a season, which took a toll on Johnny. If he wasn’t so overused, he would’ve been playing into his 40s instead of retiring at 36.
When a man has only 65 more strike-outs than home runs for a 19 year career the debate is over before it's even begun. For his career, Berra batted . 285, with 358 home runs (not all at catcher) and with 1,430 RBI's. Bench had a career batting average of . 267, hit 389 home runs (not all at catcher), and drove in 1,376 runs.
@@fourltrman Fine. Give Yogi Berra the all-time Silver Slugger award as a catcher. But Yogi failed to win a single Gold Glove in the 7 full seasons he played, when the award existed. Bench won 10 straight GGs. He had the stronger throwing arm. As I said, Bench is the greatest ALL-AROUND catcher.
Yadier Molina was best I ever saw and have watched baseball since 1956. Having seen Molina , Bench, and Rodriguez in all of there careers That I rate them withn Berra close to Pudge.
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And yeah,........I had a Johnny Bench "Batter Up"!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
I agree that Bench is still the best catcher of all time.
Yogi. 10 rings, bub.
So? The video is not about greatest teams.
Not just the rings. When a man has only 65 more strike-outs than home runs for a 19 year career the debate is over before it's even begun. For his career, Berra batted . 285, with 358 home runs (not all at catcher) and with 1,430 RBI's. Bench had a career batting average of . 267, hit 389 home runs (not all at catcher), and drove in 1,376 runs.
Pudge Rodriguez fans would argue that notion.
If you don’t believe it, just ask Bench!!!
You make me lpisssed
Check the stats YOGI BERRA
Hard to say that Mike Piazza is not as good...if not better??? Mike is certainly the best hitting catcher of all time.
Johnny Bench called...
Best catcher. Not hardly.Yogi Berra by far. Similar statistics except Bench struck out three times as often. And the biggest one of all. Yogi Berra TEN time World Series Champion!
Maybe best NL catcher?
Day 1 of asking for a video on Brock Holt.
Pudge was close. Yadier was close to Pudge. Bench is still untouchable.
0:20
Ted simmons and carlton fisk need to bw in the conversation
Third best.
15 min
Yadier molina
Nor another backstabber.
He's would one-hand backhand tough pitches in the dirt like it was routine! He was the REAL Captain Hook, not Sparky Anderson!
. Gibson?
Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez
Johnny was and is the best
Bench was amazing. But Munson was better in almost every defensive categories. More games caught. Assists. Runners thrown out. League leader in assists. And isnt Catchers job primarily defense? Offensively Munson had more hits. More triples. More 300 seasons. And 25 more points lifetime batting average. Bench had more home runs. But if they switched stadiums, he wouldn't even have that advantage. Munson was better. Arguably the goat.
Bench has 10 gold gloves, Munson has 3. Stop it.
@@sbskking Well maybe he bought the writers gifts. Because Munson's defensive stats were better in every single category. Read my post. And his batting average almost 30 points higher to boot. Most liked. Most publicized. Doesn't make a player better.
3x 300 BA & 100 RBI : Only Ever
@@jimbob9828 Munson had a career batting average of .357 in the postseason, and a World Series batting average of .373. Lifetime 292 hitter. Bench had a career batting average of .267. Munson also better in almost every defensive category. Munson by far the better hiter and defensive catcher. Bench was great. But overrated.
Johnny Bench HR at home: 195. Johnny Bench HR on the road: 194. Thurman Munson career HR total: 113. JR career DWAR: 19.7. TM DWAR: 11.9. What are you even talking about?
Give me a break! Not even in the top 5. Played in a baby ballpark.
Jerry Grote should of won all those gold-gloves. Way better defensively & could call a better game.
long range
I thought catchers were one of the smartest players on the team.
Ivan Rodriguez was better hands down... He has 13 gold gloves, which is the most ever for a catcher. 14-time All-Star. 311 career HRs with a 296 career average..7 silver sluggers and is also 1st in MLB history in hits at the catcher spot and 1st in MLB history in runs at the catcher spot. He is 2nd all-time in put-outs only behind Molina. He caught until he retired and is 1st in MLB history in games caught. He hit .315 over a 10 year span in his career while winning an MVP and a WS ring. The most impressive thing about Pudge is he is 8th All-time in defensive WAR among guys like Ozzie Smith, Cal Ripken Jr, and Brooks Robinson. He is the ONLY catcher even in the top 10 among MLB history's greatest defenders. His ability to hit for average and power, mixed with his top-notch defense and longevity make him probably the best all-around catcher to ever do it....Bonus fact Pudge is also the only catcher to ever hit 20 or more HRs while stealing 20 or more bases in the same season.
Ivan Rodriguez was something else, man. Most underrated catcher of all time…
Not even close, Bench is the goat.
You’re smoking Crack ! Bench is the GOAT
@@TiagoGomez-hb9teDidn’t Pudge use roids?
Ivan never won a world series
ironic that his name is bench
Carlton Fisk very similar stats
Cochrane. Freehan. Parrish. Pudge…jake??
Yogi and Pudge were as good
This is going to be a controversial opinion I am sure. But I don't care. I think Bench is over rated. I think we place way to much emphaisis on his ability to throw out base runners and his power hitter, which declined rapidly after he had a surgery on his lung. He was a good catcher but he was not a great catcher. Yogi Berra and Roy Campenella were as good if not better. Pudge Rodreiguez was as good as bench although he shared Bench'es weakness for calling games. Yadi Molina was as good if not better. Heck I saw catchers back in the seventies who were just as good as bench if not Better. Thurman Munson AND Carlton Fisk.