They have a plate in front of them

Usage examples of catchers.

Throws from catchers with a slinging motion tend not to follow a straight line but to tail off toward the first-base side of second base.

On the top of the hills, small forests of windmills spun in the offshore breeze and on the roofs of many houses, sun catchers glinted in the morning light.

The surface of the steel was honeycombed with thousands of tiny force field projectors powered by a complex system of sun catchers and storage units built into the pylons.

Sun catchers bloomed like exotic flowers on the top of the vast machine.

The leading scouting publication, Baseball America, has just published its special issue devoted to the 2002 draft, and in it a list of the top twenty-five amateur catchers in the country.

Jeremy Brown, whose name had somehow failed to turn up on Baseball America's list of the top twenty-five amateur catchers, who serious scouts believed should never be a pro baseball player, is now a first-round draft choice of the Oakland A's.