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Originally Posted by HoustonGM
It's also worth noting that those real life figures you mentioned are inflated due to catchers being used at other positions/at DH. Only two catchers (Salvador Perez in 2014, Matt Wieters in 2013) actually caught more than 140 games in a season from 2012-2014.
In 2014, for example, Lucroy, Posey and McCann all played 140+ games overall, but spent 10+ games at 1B/DH.
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Good point! Looking at this chart was really revealing in terms of how rare this is. With the exception of Jason Kendall who was a freak of nature
140 defensive game starts is vanishingly rare.
Year-by-Year Top-Tens Leaders & Records for Def. Games as C | Baseball-Reference.com