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Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for June 13.

1) Jonathan Lucroy (1986)
A two-time All-Star, Lucroy bounced around to eight teams after turning 30 years old, but he’ll mostly be remembered for his first seven years with the Brewers, where he paired outstanding framing with a solid bat. For a half-decade span between 2012-16, when he posted a 120 OPS+, Lucroy was right up there in the conversation for “best catcher in baseball not named Buster Posey.” After the '21 season, he was named to the “Brewers Wall of Honor.”

2) Ernie Whitt (1952)
Whitt was taken by the Blue Jays from the Red Sox in the Expansion Draft when the Majors arrived in Toronto in 1977, though he was only sparsely used until he became the club’s starting catcher in '80. Whitt stuck around with the Jays until '89, making the All-Star team in '85, and hitting double-digit homers eight seasons in a row. Not only has Whitt caught more games than any Blue Jays catcher in history, it’s really not even close.

3) Alyssa Nakken (1990)
Nakken, a three-time all-conference first baseman as a college softball player for Sacramento State, joined the Giants as an intern in 2014 and six years later, she became the first woman to hold a coaching position on a Major League staff when Gabe Kapler added her to his San Francisco coaching crew. “There’s no question in my mind she has every tool necessary to [lead a Major League team] at some point,” Kapler later said.

4) James McCann (1990)
June 13 is a good day to find a catcher being born, apparently. After parts of five up-and-down seasons with Detroit, McCann had an All-Star breakout for the 2019 White Sox and was even better in '20, though in only 111 plate appearances. That earned him a four-year contract with the Mets, though his first two season in New York were somewhat underwhelming. He was traded to the Orioles after the 2022 season.

5) Mel Parnell (1922)
Parnell isn’t well-remembered today, but for the decade immediately following World War II, he was one of the better left-handed starters in baseball, picking up MVP votes in four seasons for the Red Sox. His 1949 season (25-7, and 8.0 WAR) still rates as one of the best by a lefty in Boston history. He still holds the record for most innings thrown by a Red Sox lefty, and that’s a mark that is likely to be his for decades.

Others of note:
Drew Smyly (1989)
First, Smyly was an interesting young pitcher for the Tigers; then he was one of the biggest prizes sent to Tampa Bay in the David Price deal; then, after some highlights with the Rays, he was the oft-injured arm who was unable to appear in the Majors in 2017 or ‘18. But wait: There’s more. A '19 return to the bigs was successful more for his availability than his success (6.24 ERA for Texas and Philadelphia), then a brief run of quality with the Giants in ‘20 (42 strikeouts in 26 1/3 innings) earned him an $11 million contract with the Braves for ‘21, where he didn’t quite live up to expectations, but did pitch four World Series innings on his way to earning a ring. He then signed with the Cubs in 2022.

Pedro Strop (1985)
The 2016 Cubs maybe don’t manage to break the curse if not for the '13 heist of a trade that brought Jake Arrieta to Chicago from Baltimore, but don’t forget that they acquired useful setup man Strop in the same deal. Over parts of eight seasons with the Cubs, Strop provided a 2.88 ERA in over 400 relief appearances, and he allowed only four earned runs in 20 Chicago postseason games.

Cory Aldridge (1979)
At 22 years old, Aldridge got into eight games for the 2001 Braves. It took him nine more years to get back to the Majors to collect his first (and only) big league hit, tripling in the only run for the Angels in a 15-1 loss to Oakland on July 10, 2010. It was, at the time, tied for the second-longest post-war (and non-publicity stunt) gap between appearances in the bigs.

Marcel Lachemann (1941)
Lachemann isn’t here for his brief career as a pitcher, getting into 70 games across three seasons for the A’s from 1969-71. Decades later, he became the first pitching coach for the Marlins (managed, at the time, by his brother Rene) and spent parts of three seasons as manager of the Angels.

Bill Bergen (1878)
Bergen is famous, at least to a certain set of baseball fans. A highly regarded defensive catcher for Cincinnati and Brooklyn between 1901-13, Bergen hit only .170/.194/.201 in nearly 1,000 games. He once went 45 consecutive at-bats without a hit; his 21 OPS+ is the weakest in the history of baseball (minimum 3,000 plate appearances). He’d better have been a great backstop, because he might just be the least effective hitter who ever played.

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