How to say "catcher" in Japanese

• キャッチャーCommon
  nounThe loanword for the baseball sense of 'catcher', the fielder crouched behind home plate. It is the form you naturally hear in spoken discussion of games and in commentary.
  私わたしたちは先日せんじつ、吉田よしだ君くんを我わが野球やきゅうチームのキャッチャーに選えらんだ。↗

  The other day, we chose Yoshida to be the catcher on our school's baseball team.
• 捕手ほしゅCommon
  nounThe kanji term for the same baseball position. It is the word you typically meet in newspaper reports, team lineups and player profiles, that is, in written coverage of the game.

Both words mean the catcher in baseball, the fielder behind home plate: 「キャッチャー」 is the katakana loanword, while 捕手 is the kanji term typical of news reports and official baseball writing.

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• キャッチャーcatcher
• 捕手ほしゅcatcher
• キャッチcatcher