Before the season, most fans would have "known" that catching would be the Achilles Heel for the Red Sox. The team opened with the aging Jason Varitek, and the unproven Jarod Saltalamacchia, the latter long a Sox target for potential.
And the season didn't start well for the pair, with both flirting with the Mendoza Line and neither reminding anyone of Johnny Bench behind the plate.
Where are we now?
...........................GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS
Varitek 31 94 13 22 4 0 3 13 11 28 0 0 .234 .321 .372 .693
GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS
Saltalamacchia 41 131 17 31 7 1 5 18 9 34 0 0 .237 .296 .420 .716
We can distill it down to 30 runs scored, 8 homers and 31 RBI in a combined 66 games.
The combination of Russell Martin (24 runs, 9 homers, 27 RBI) and Francisco Cervelli (6 runs, 1 HR, 10RBI) have combined for 30 runs, 10 homers, 37 RBI.
That's not much of a difference, particularly when adjusted for cost, with the Sox catchers paid 2.75 million dollars and the Yankees (not counting DH Jorge Posada) 4.445 million dollars.
Call it a wash.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment