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The top-ranked catcher in the Draft wouldn't even be a backstop if not for a text from dad

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Sometimes, one text can change the future. Back home in Suwanee, Georgia – a little more than 30 miles northeast of Atlanta – Vahn Lackey was a young third baseman on a Little League team that was using a left-handed thrower as a catcher, something that hasn’t been done in
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MLB broke the news in New York, United States on Tuesday, July 7, 2026.
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