1993 year of the catcher?

[fenrir]

mike piazza: 152 ops+
chris hoiles: 162 ops+
rick wilkins: 150 ops+
mike stanley: 150 ops+
jeff reed: 111 ops+


seemed like a big year for more then a few catchers. anyone know of any other year with a lot of elite hitting catchers?

[fenrir]

few moore

darren daulton: 135 ops+
chad krueter: 130 ops+
mike macfarlane: 123 ops+

[HDH]

I consider 1979 the year of the catcher. Except for the stars who all seemed to have off years; all the offensive cathers peaked; the defensive specialist peaked too:

Bench, Fisk, Munson (plane crash), Carter, Porter, Parrish, Downing, Tenace, Dale Murphy, Cerone, Sundberg, Simmons, Wynegar, Newman, Alexander, Boone, Ott, Stearn, Furgeson, Foote, Moore, Yeager, Ashby, Dempsey, May

[dgarza]

Tettleton was still a part time catcher in '93.

[DoubleX]

How about the 1932-1935 period, particularly 1932 and 1935? You have five Hall of Famers during that period - Mickey Cochrane, Bill Dickey, Gabby Hartnett, Ernie Lombardi, Rick Ferrell, plus a good hitting catcher in his prime in Spud Davis, plus good but light hitting catchers such as Al Lopez, Luke Sewell, and Gus Mancuso. Here's the average OPS+ during that four year period for some of these guys:

Cochrane: 136
Hartnett: 127
Dickey: 125
Davis: 125
Lombardi: 122
Ferrell: 102

Even Al Lopez, had a 92 OPS+ during that period (compared to 83 for his career).