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“Our results indicate that while well-intended, the league’s current efforts to reduce contact injuries among catchers may be overlooking other types of trauma among this subgroup that tend to inflict more physical harm and lead to more loss of game time,” says senior investigator Edward McFarland, professor of orthopaedic surgery at Johns Hopkins.Īccording to the study, of the 134 reported injuries to catchers between 20, 114 occurred without a collision with a baserunner. In fact, these types of injuries were often neither season-ending nor career-ending, and they generally required shorter recovery times than other types of injuries. The 10-year study published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine revealed that fewer than 15 percent of injuries sustained by catchers occurred during home plate contact with another player. It turns out, if Major League Baseball really wanted to prevent foot and ankle injuries in catchers, they’d reevaluate their protection during at-bats. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine teamed up with two trainers from the Baltimore Orioles to determine if collisions really were the most detrimental part of a baseball game for a catcher’s health. The banning of home-plate collisions would become known as the Buster Posey rule, but are home plate collisions really the source of foot and ankle injuries for most catchers? Catching Study Posey ended up rupturing ligaments in his ankle and breaking a bone in his leg, and the injury caused Major League Baseball to re-evaluate catcher safety. That player was Buster Posey, and he was attempting to block home plate when he was railroaded by Scott Cousins. The words Tuck Rule and Tom Brady have become synonymous, and just two years ago, Major League Baseball announced that home-plate collisions would be banned after one of their biggest up-and-coming stars suffered a gruesome injury during a collision. Major rule changes in sports don’t come along often, but when they do, it’s usually because of incidents involving high profile athletes.