Catcher Discussion

[thebruce44]

Every time I read about Salome I root for him more and more.

[TuesdaysWithRillo]

McCalvy did a nice article on Brett Lawrie today on brewers.com. You should check it out.

[Tbadder]

Geez...Angel sounds like a great guy with a little bit of wisdom at a young age.

 

And Lawrie? The look in his eye, his concentration...man oh man I bet we're looking at Braun Part Two.

[Molitor4]

Gamel is not a 3rd baseman in my book. In the Brewers book he is, and that's all that counts, but I'm very, very leery. And if I was a betting man I'd say he'll probably be the worst major league third baseman in terms of defense. Again, something the Brewers simply can't afford with the price of pitching nowadays. Hope I'm wrong, hope he works outs the bugs, he's improved some for sure, but he's still rather poor.

 

Green might be the answer, and we'll know a lot better after a full year in AA. But until then I'd rather not count on him, though in truth he may be the only real alternative. If he is real then by all means keep Angel at catcher or jettison via trade.

I'm actually not terribly leary of Gamel at third base most of reports we've heard are from outside the organization from guys like BA that watch player play once maybe twice a year. from what i've heard the bulk of his errors are throwing errors which is correctable and comes from repitition now gamel will never be a gold glover but a couple of more years working with don money and i have to believe he'll work out the kink in his throwing mechanics.

 

Green is actually the type of guy the brewers need more of a scrappy guy that just gets the job done both he and gillespie are the types of players that hit well and don't necessarily stand out but just put up numbers.

[Molitor4]

Lawrie's bat is my big question. How good is it? How fast will he come up?

 

The Brewers need to figure out what the likely answer to these questions are, and take things from there.

 

Gamel, Green, and Salome were 1-2-3 in my top 20 list (yes, I will reveal that part of my vote now).

 

Salome could be moved to LF, the way the Brewers hid Dave Nilsson for a few years in the 1990s, but then, one of the better leadoff prospects in the Brewers system, Cole Gillespie, may have no place to play (he's mostly played LF in the system).

no offense but i don't think salome is going to push on the best outfielders in the national league out of his position. braun ain't moving unless hart is traded and even then i have to believe the brewers don't want to keep moving him around. This brewers team has a lot more talent the brewers of dave nilsson era.

[Mass Haas]

Short and sweet, courtesy of Adam McCalvy's blog:

 

General manager Doug Melvin on catching prospect Jonathan Lucroy: "That kid is going to be a player. He reminds me a little of [former A's catcher] Terry Steinbach."

 

Roll on, Jonathan. We've simply never seen a disparaging report of any kind on the kid.

[yoshii8]

Wow, thats quite a nice compliment by Melvin, I was a big fan of Terry Steinbach, he was a very solid catcher.

[pogokat]

http://members.tripod.com/bb_catchers/catchers/steinbach.jpghttp://media.scout.com/media/image/56/569470.jpg

they do kinda look alike, however...