Agree, the catcher position has been a problem in the line up for a couple of years. Particularly this past season.
Defensively Kinzler is good enough to be a big league catcher, he just couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat. The last 2 seasons Yadi wasn't any better at the plate though. It'd be nice to find a catcher than isn't an offensive liability along with bat in the outfield would be nice too. I'm feeling better about the pitching with the two pick-ups at the trade deadline this year though. A big stretch would be to get Jordan Walker into the bigs in a hurry along with Mason Wynn. I think those two are still a year away but when they're ready they'll be superstars.Agree, the catcher position has been a problem in the line up for a couple of years. Particularly this past season.
Guess this answers my question.
I think the the plan at shortstop may be Edman segueing to Masyn Winn.Living in STL, sounds like some decent buzz around going after Christian Vazquez at catcher and trea turner at SS. Hope that second part means we finally cut ties with DeJong
Unfortunately this is probably the end for Danny Mac. This is his third time now and will get some jail time. Unfortunate but unacceptable. Hope he gets the help he needs.
This really sucks..I don’t get it! Take that back, I definitely get alcoholism, people much better than myself have struggled mightily with it. What I do not understand is how someone with that much money, living in a very urban area like the St. Louis area doesn’t just take a goddamn Uber or taxi?!Really hate to see this, I have always liked him the way he announced a game, but he was warned the last night, and this will end of his broadcasting career, at least with the Cardinals.
Man has a huge problem and hopefully after he gets out of jail, he can get into rehab, and actually give up drinking.
Never paid much attention to Contreras. Looking at his stats, both recent and career—especially in Wrigley—I can’t claim to be enthralled.At the least, we got a good bat (catcher was largely a hole in the lineup last year) and we didn't have to give up Nootbar or anyone else other a draft pick.
Never paid much attention to Contreras. Looking at his stats, both recent and career—especially in Wrigley—I can’t claim to be enthralled.
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As a Cubs fan I loved Willy's passion and energy and he has a cannon for an arm behind the plate and Cards fans will quickly love that about him too the first time he snaps a pickoff to 1B. The knock on him is he is not a great defensive catcher and doesn't handle a pitching staff well. Plus he always has had some kind of nagging injury going on lately too and the Cubs used him at DH a lot this year to try and keep him fresh. If you look at his splits he had 265 AB as a catcher and 149 as a DH this year in 113 games so about 36% of his AB came playing DH this season. Part of that was to keep him healthy enough to possibly trade but even after the trade deadline felt like they used Gomes a lot more a C than Contreras and Contreras missed most of September with another injury. He'd get hot early in the season and make you think he finally has broke out then cools off and you find he has some nagging injury or something affecting his offensive production.Never paid much attention to Contreras. Looking at his stats, both recent and career—especially in Wrigley—I can’t claim to be enthralled.
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