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Not enough information to conclude anything. However, if the catcher is blocking the plate while receiving a ball in flight and near enough to the catcher so he must occupy the position to field the ball then it is not obstruction. It is entirely the umpire's judgement as to whether he is in act of fielding a thrown ball, although I am sure I read somewhere that a rule of thumb is if the ball is in flight above the dirt cutout portion, ie 13 feet from the plate, then not obstruction. So based on this I would a) is obstruction and b) is not.
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