Active Left handed infielders and catchers?

Also, baseball is steeped in belief-based coaching, such as, “We’ve done it this way and it’s always been this way and that is what is going to be.”

So for most coaches, they won’t let a lefty play anywhere else except 1B/OF/P, even if they can do a position better than someone who is right handed. That being said, a lot of the infield positions would be tougher on a lefty, except catcher and 1B. Doesn’t mean they can’t do it though.

In the NFL for a long time there was a stigma where if you were left handed, you couldn’t be QB because there hasn’t been any good left handed QBs and blah blah blah, they turned out to be false but you can see that people will hold on to those beliefs for a long time.

No! There are no such things in the MLB.

And if you don’t why, you just haven’t been paying attention!

It is a fielding handicap for left hand throwers to play at second base, shortstop, and third base. Because of the requirement to field the ball cleanly and then throw the batter out at first..

It’s extremely rare because the throw to first would be awkward for a lefty infielder. They’d have to spin around to set their feet for the throw which takes precious time and increases the likelihood of an errant throw. The guy in my avatar actually played 3rd a few times but he was an exceptional fielder.

Lefty catchers would have the problem of having to throw to 2nd around a righty batter. Obviously righty catchers have the same problem with a lefty batter, but there are a lot more righty batters.

VERY few catchers and second base. In fact none right now as to catchers, there might be an ambidextrous second basemen.