Johnny Bench, Yogi Berra, and Roy Campanella would beg to differ.

for sure best all around catcher

No Johnny Bench is.

no, Johnny bench, will always be considered the best to play his position

No. I-Rod is a heck of a talent, but no one has approached the career achievements of Yogi Berra or Johnny Bench. Hands down, those are the two best catchers in the history of the game in their respective leagues.

one of the best defensive but jonny bench or mike piazza is

Almost, If Bench wasn't such a ledgend, Ivan would be #1,
But the Big Red Machine wont allow him to replace bench as the all-time great

I love Pudge, but I'm gonna have to second the Johnny Bench/Yogi Berra motion.

Close but Johnny Bench is widely regarded as the best ever 10 gold gloves 14 all star games 389 home runs 1376 RBI's .990 career feilding percentage career OPS of .880 2 MVP's and 2 rings in 17 years. Pudge's stats look like 12 gold gloves and 14 allstars 285 home runs 115 rbi's .990 fielding OPS of .823 1 MVP and 1 ring in 17 years. There stats are really close but remember this bench did it when there were far fewer teams so better talent top to bottom on most rosters.

Of course:
鈥?1992: American League Gold Glove at C
鈥?1993: American League Gold Glove at C
鈥?1994: American League Gold Glove at C
鈥?1995: American League Gold Glove at C
鈥?1996: American League Gold Glove at C
鈥?1997: American League Gold Glove at C
鈥?1998: American League Gold Glove at C
鈥?1999: American League Most Valuable Player
鈥?1999: American League Gold Glove at C
鈥?2000: American League Gold Glove at C
鈥?2001: American League Gold Glove at C
鈥?2003: NLCS Most Valuable Player
鈥?2004: American League Silver Slugger
鈥?2004: American League Gold Glove at C
鈥?2006: American League Gold Glove at C

Also caught two no hitters
World Series champion

nope

no but hes a great catcher one of the best ever to play but not the best the best is between Berra and bench

Yes, of course.

All questions should be this easy!

He is in MY opinion, and that's all that counts :)

I-Rod is an amazing catcher but you have to look at some of the greats. Yogi Berra, Johnny Bench.

I would have to go with Johnny Bench & Roy Campanella...

yes 12 gold glove
1 mvp
caught 2 no hitters
1 world series ring soon to be 2 at the end of this season
go tigers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, Johhny Bench...The Reds

Hell no! I'd take Mickey Cochrane over Pudge or Bench.

One of the best catchers of all time (Josh Gibson) never played in the Bigs.

Of those i've seen it is a tough choice between Bench and I-Rod. If we go just by the numbers, I-Rod is gonna take it. Better hitter and a stronger throwing arm.

What Bench did better than any other catcher isn't easily captured by stats. No one knew how to pitch to opposing batters as well and he was a master at handling his own pitchers.

hes not even in the top 3.Bench ,Berra,Carter,then Pudge

Yes

in what category? Yogi Berria has played in the most world series, Johnny Bench is in the hall of fame plus many many more so I'd say no