Comments on: More to Bucs’ Catching Situation Than You Think

By: Michael Bradley

Michael Bradley — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 13:08:23 +0000

Yankees just gave Gary Sanchez the “vote of confidence” as the starter in NY. He did have a bad year defensively though. The Yankees would spend $11M on an insurance policy catcher but I think they’d rather drive up the market for their competitors and then sign Cervelli after ’19 if Sanchez becomes full time DH.

Here’s a link to MLBTR summarizing the market:

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/10/2018-19-market-snapshot-catcher.html

By: RetireNutting

RetireNutting — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 01:24:02 +0000

Why not just trade Cervelli for Florial, Seigler, and one of the Yankees rule 5 catchers, then?

By: Bob Stover

Bob Stover — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:20:29 +0000

I like your thinking for its logic, and hate that you suggest that we send a great guy like Cervelli elsewhere. On the other hand, he’d have a chance at a World Series ring somewhere else on a big budget team. Ironically, the Yankees might like to have him back over the injury prone Sanchez, and he could DH there against left handed pitching.

By: wkkortas

wkkortas — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:39:23 +0000

I agree that trading Cervelli may be the best option–at some point, and probably sooner than later, the choice of whether or not Cervelli can continue to catch will be taken out of the ballclub’s hands by the doctors. At this point, he would have more value to an AL club, where he could DH, play some first, and catch once a week or so–essentially, making him the version of John Jaso that could catch and still actually play worth a damn. If the 2019 Pirates were going to go all-in instead of just dipping their toe into the deep end of the pool (and I’m not sure which approach is the correct one), then I can see holding on to Cervelli, but I think he has enough trade value where I’m comfortable moving on from him.