🗽 Caleb (Jefferson Rojas FC)

Took a deeper dive into this. Since 2016 when outfield catch probability began being tracked: ➡️ 3 players are tied for the most 5-star catches in their career with 18: Kevin Kiermaier, Michael Taylor, and Pete Crow-Armstrong. Taylor did it in 148 opportunities (12.2% 5-star catch rate). Kiermayer did it in 102 opportunities (17.6%) PCA did it in 32 opportunities. (56.3%) ➡️ While PCA isn’t at 100 career 5-star catch opportunities yet, there are 43 players with 100+. Kiermaier has the highest percentage of catches in that group as mentioned above (17.6%) Only 4 others of the 43 have a catch rate over 10%. ➡️ If you look at just 2025, PCA has made 10 of 15 5-star catch opportunities or 66.6%. No other player in MLB has a conversion percentage above 33.3%. ➡️ Of the 8 players in 2025 with 15+ 5-star catch opportunities (for a cumulative total of 272), 15 have been caught. Only 5.5% PCA has caught 10 of the 15. (66.6% of his opportunities) The other 7 players combined have caught the other 5. Out of 257 chances. That’s a 1.9% collective catch rate in that group. ➡️ The single-season record for 5 star catches made is 10, by Adam Engel in 2017. He did it in 23 opportunities (43.5%) ➡️ The single-season record for 5 star catch percentage is 46.7%, by PCA in 2024. He did it with 7 catches in 15 tries ➡️ PCA has already tied the single-season record (10) for 5-star catches made. Before the All-Star break. ➡️ If he keeps it up at his current rate, he will have 21 5-star catches at seasons end. More than doubling the previous single-season record. ➡️ His current 5-star catch rate (66.6%) will also blow away his record from last year by twenty percentage points In summary, PCA is a lightning fast unicorn ⚡️🦄 💨 🤯 never before seen (since 2016 anyway)