Catcher? Kendall, Molina, Blanco, Lucroy, Rivera, Salome ...

[Bombers]

With our up the middle defense being Escobar, Weeks, and Gomez is it imperative that we get an above average defender at Catcher? How important is it that we have a hitter who can hit? And is it me, or does it seem like when we play against Bengie Molina it feels like we are playing against Joe Mauer with the numbers Molina has against us? Maybe a little tunnel vision here, but it seems like Molina would fit in perfect in our lineup. He has also done a great job with the young staff in SF. Not sure how much money we are going to spend here. Maybe we invite Salome, Lucroy and Rivera to camp and have them compete for the starting spot.

 

Here are last years stats ...

 

	AVG	OBP	OPS	Fld%	CS%
Molina	0.265	0.285	0.727	0.995	23%
Kendall	0.241	0.331	0.636	0.992	20%
Blanco	0.235	0.320	0.703	1.000	40%
Rivera	0.228	0.325	0.668	1.000	22%
Salome (AAA)	0.286	0.334	0.748	0.976	30%
Lucroy (AA)	0.267	0.380	0.798	0.991	40%

[bklynbrewcrew]

Give me Blanco and one of the kids. I want no part of Kendall.

[brewmann04]

yes let Kendall go so we have that extra money for Davis or Washburn.

[patrickgpe]

blanco and LuCroy.

[CheezWizHed]

I almost choked when I saw Molina's OBP. Obviously, he makes it up in slugging, but wow that's bad. Career is .308 OBP, so not much better.

[Weirdos19]

Varitek for one year?

[wibadgers23]

patrickgpe[/b]]blanco and LuCroy.

Ditto. Let Salome start full time in Nashville.

[Hotdog]

Varitek and Lucroy. righty/lefty at the plate

[trwi7]

I'd take Blanco and Rivera for a year. No need to rush the kids.

[Invader3K]

By reading Haudricourt's latest article, it sounds like Lucroy is a good possibility in Melvin's mind. He also insinuates that if Kendall comes back, it will be for a much lower salary.

[dadofandrew]

I'd have no problem with Kendall at $2M. The only C available with a higher OBP than Jason is Gregg Zaun.

[fleehaw]

I'd also throw Chris Snyder in the discussion. He's coming off back surgery (supposed to be healthy for ST), and blocked in ARI. His contract isn't pretty 2yrs/~$12M, but ARI might be interested in a swap of bad contracts (Suppan for Snyder).

[yount19.u]

I'd have no problem with Kendall at $2M. The only C available with a higher OBP than Jason is Gregg Zaun.

I agree. Any more than $2M and I would say no way, but 1 year at $1-2M as a solid backup to help the the young guys out would be a great investment. I could see it starting out as maybe a 50/50 split with either Lucroy or Salome getting more playing time as they get more comfortable. This assumes one of them performs well enough to win the job out of spring training. I could see Kendall taking a pay cut over another team's offer to come back to Milwaukee.