"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?