Among the many, many, many impressive things about Cal Raleigh 's 60-homer 2025 is something a lot more mundane, but extremely important: He showed up every day.

Ralegh played in 159 games. He took 705 plate appearances. In Sunday’s Game 1 of the ALCS, he caught all nine innings less than 48 hours – and an entire continent away – after he caught all 209 pitches in Friday night’s 15-inning long ALDS epic . Then he caught all nine again again on Monday, as the Mariners grabbed a 2-0 series lead over the Blue Jays in Toronto.

Going back to 1961, when the schedule expanded to its current 162 games, only one catcher (defined here and throughout as someone who spent at least half their time behind the plate) took more plate appearances in a regular season: Hall of Famer and probably

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