Catcher

Catcher - defensive position in baseball and softball played behind home plate, facing the field. Article “Catcher” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Catcher”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 715 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 82 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 19732 times in all languages (8740^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2630 in June 2008
• Global: #13688 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2745 in January 2026
• Global: #38944 in May 2008

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Catcher		71.4203
2	Japanese (ja) 捕手		65.615
3	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		31.9258
4	Korean (ko) 포수		24.7297
5	Vietnamese (vi) Cầu thủ bắt bóng		22.6258
6	Swedish (sv) Catcher		19.6642
7	Portuguese (pt) Receptor (beisebol)		19.5091
8	Min Nan (zhminnan) Pó͘-chhiú		19.3271
9	German (de) Catcher		18.2507
10	Spanish (es) Cácher		18.2177

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Catcher" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Catcher		1 838 454
2	Japanese (ja) 捕手		1 082 078
3	Spanish (es) Cácher		470 753
4	German (de) Catcher		117 485
5	Chinese (zh) 捕手		116 971
6	Russian (ru) Кетчер (бейсбол)		81 853
7	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		74 729
8	Korean (ko) 포수		70 880
9	Portuguese (pt) Receptor (beisebol)		65 418
10	Italian (it) Ricevitore (baseball)		44 388

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Catcher" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Catcher		5 327
2	Japanese (ja) 捕手		2 493
3	Chinese (zh) 捕手		350
4	Russian (ru) Кетчер (бейсбол)		344
5	Spanish (es) Cácher		309
6	German (de) Catcher		220
7	Korean (ko) 포수		213
8	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		206
9	Italian (it) Ricevitore (baseball)		111
10	Dutch (nl) Achtervanger		102

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Catcher" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Catcher		316
2	Japanese (ja) 捕手		155
3	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		40
4	German (de) Catcher		38
5	Korean (ko) 포수		35
6	Spanish (es) Cácher		30
7	Chinese (zh) 捕手		26
8	Dutch (nl) Achtervanger		15
9	Portuguese (pt) Receptor (beisebol)		15
10	Italian (it) Ricevitore (baseball)		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Catcher" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Vietnamese (vi) Cầu thủ bắt bóng		2
2	Japanese (ja) 捕手		1
3	Dutch (nl) Achtervanger		1
4	Arabic (ar) ملتقط		0
5	German (de) Catcher		0
6	English (en) Catcher		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Ricevulo		0
8	Spanish (es) Cácher		0
9	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		0
10	Italian (it) Ricevitore (baseball)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Catcher" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Catcher		7 858
2	Japanese (ja) 捕手		5 269
3	Korean (ko) 포수		1 487
4	Chinese (zh) 捕手		1 186
5	French (fr) Receveur (baseball)		1 088
6	Arabic (ar) ملتقط		1 080
7	Spanish (es) Cácher		528
8	Russian (ru) Кетчер (бейсбол)		248
9	Italian (it) Ricevitore (baseball)		224
10	German (de) Catcher		209

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ملتقط
de	German Catcher
en	English Catcher
eo	Esperanto Ricevulo
es	Spanish Cácher
fr	French Receveur (baseball)
it	Italian Ricevitore (baseball)
ja	Japanese 捕手
ko	Korean 포수
ms	Malay Penangkap (besbol)
nl	Dutch Achtervanger
pt	Portuguese Receptor (beisebol)
ru	Russian Кетчер (бейсбол)
simple	Simple English Catcher
sv	Swedish Catcher
vi	Vietnamese Cầu thủ bắt bóng
zh	Chinese 捕手
zhminnan	Min Nan Pó͘-chhiú

Best Rank

Simple English: #2745 01.2026

Global: #38944 05.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #2630 06.2008

Global: #13688 06.2004

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