Crowd Sourcing: Catcher
by philkid3 on Feb 14, 2012 10:35 AM CST
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PrintHey guys. I'm going to do another Rangers forecast this year based on some projection system (probably ZiPS or CAIRO or a mixture, don't know yet). I'll use that for the rate stats, but the best way to forecast playing time is to ask the knowledgeable fans. And LSB is, of course, the most knowledgeable Rangers fanbase.
So, I'm going to put up a series of polls trying to get y'all's ideas on playing time, and those will be the basis of the thingy (and I'll be acknowledging your help). Feel free to argue or OT or whatever in the comments, the poll is all I need. Suggestions and stuff also welcome.
This is not meant as a replacement or opposition to the LSB predictions that I assume we will eventually do. It may help you in gauging PA totals there, though.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
First up is catcher. What do you think?
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As a side question, who is first in line to take over should one of them go down for an extended period of time?
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wait
are you asking who the 3rd catcher will be?
Martinez is on the 40, correct?
So he’s the logical choice, I assume.
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right
with options. Dusty Brown and Chris Robinson would be the other two options after that.
I doubt Jose
Felix will ever be an option. Manny Pina already is an option for KC in that role….another catcher evaluation flop for Texas. Can’t even figure out who has the likeliest third catcher ceiling. 2 flops in one actually: Pina for D-Gut.
a player
not on the roster currently, about replacment level
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
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by knockoutking on Feb 14, 2012 11:01 AM CST up reply actions
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by I am Neftali Feliz on Feb 14, 2012 10:59 AM CST reply actions
/not really
"God dammit TAG I swear to God if you keep this "It was a close play" shit up all night I will send you cookies made from my own shit" -River Fenix 8/26/2011
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by I am Neftali Feliz on Feb 14, 2012 10:59 AM CST up reply actions
I went with fairly even split
I think Napoli, if healthy, probably sees something like 70-80 games at C and another 40-50 games at 1B/C.
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by Prashanth Francis on Feb 14, 2012 12:01 PM CST reply actions
Same here.
"I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else." by Earl Weaver
Same
"I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online, and I have come to believe it is primarily because we live in a society with a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues." --Alan Jacobs
This is what I think, too
though I suspect Napoli will get closer to 90 games at C if his ankle can handle it, with about 40-50 games at 1B/DH (and I assume you meant DH on the right side of that slash).
Some see a glass half empty, some a glass half full. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be. - George Carlin
Picked nit.
For future ones, don’t use the word “should” in the poll options if you want “will”. I was confused for a sec and had to double check the poll question.
"I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else." by Earl Weaver
It should be an even split more or less
Napoli will be getting a fair amount of games at 1B and DH so I think he might get something like 90-100 games at most as the catcher. If Torrealba is doing fine behind the plate and Moreland is struggling at all, Napoli’s games at C will drop while he plays 1B more often.
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Adam J. Morris: "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college."
My grandma always called it the 'hindcatcher'
and equated the dangers of playing the position to something akin to boxing a grizzly bear.
She was terrified that one of her grandsons would be put at hindcatcher.
Ideally the catching would split about 60-40 with Naps getting about 20% of his at bats...
at first base or DH. I don’t see this as being a 50-50 situation at catcher, largely because in the playoff last year Naps was the full time starting catcher, and he is valued at that position almost as much for his defense and handling of pitchers as he is for his bat. At times last year there seemed to be a disconnect between Yorvit and some of the pitchers. Hopefully the Rangers coaching staff will work on any problem that might be there.
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