Author Topic: Cubs in '22  (Read 43814 times)

craig

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Re: Cubs in '22
« Reply #2025 on: September 28, 2022, 01:20:28 pm »
"If you're curious what the Cubs may be looking for in a catcher going forward, I think this piece on Yan Gomes that I wrote the other day sums up the qualities many teams now look for in their backstop." 

I think it's also interesting that while he "sums up the qualities many teams now look for", it's interesting that over the last four years, 3 teams have been willing to let him go.  And I don't perceive Cleveland, Washington, or Oakland as all necessarily being dumb-head team.  No team has ever valued him enough to give more than a $6 or $7 deal.  And only twice has a team give him >390 PA in a season.  (Perhaps not surprisingly, those two seasons being .785 and .762-OPS good-offense seasons.)

I'm not at all trying to devalue Gomes or what he contributes.  I'm just kinda contextualizing Sharma's "qualities teams look for" statement.  Perhaps the league demand for Gomes-ish qualities is more on the $6M scale than on the preferred-primary-starter scale?