Napoli or JPA + poll

by jaysfan100 on Jan 24, 2011 4:21 PM EST

AA7 pulled off the once called impossible Saturday. I love this trade, but there aren't too many upsides to it in terms of just baseball for 2011. I wounder what else AA7 has up his sleeve, but there one thing I think that I know, there is something that is coming still. AA7 has created a log jam with this trade, as he now has 3 catchers on this team. I know that there are teams that carry 3 catchers with them over a season, but I can't see that Jays doing this as they will already have enough problems deciding who will get to be in the bull pen next year and you can't have three catchers on a team with a 7 man bull pen, as you would have 2 of the 4 bench players catchers and that just doesn't work well. So the question has to be asked, which catcher will be traded, released or sent down? I do not think that the last option is a real option as there is not a chance that Napoli or Molina either clear wavers or agree to be DFA, and JPA has proven everything he could in AAA, so sending him down would be useless, and might even turn into another Jeremy Accardo situation. So, who do you trade or release? I personally would release Molina. The argument can be made that Morrow needs his personal catcher but he said that he doesn't and at some point we need to kill this personal catcher business, so why not now. I would play JPA at catcher half the time against righties, Napoli the other half. For lefties I would play JPA all the time, and put Napoli at first all the time, preventing Lind from playing against lefties, something we need to do as he is brutal against them. What would you do?

Poll

Which Jays catcher would you get ride of (any of the ways mentioned)

JPA

32 votes

Napoli

21 votes

Molina

24 votes

None

26 votes

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I think there is a chance he carries all 3 into the season. With Napoli being able to play 1st it opens up options.

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by JohnnyG on Jan 24, 2011 5:41 PM EST reply actions

I agree, I think they will take all 3 to start the season.

13 – Pitchers
4 – outfields (Snider, Davis, Bautista, Patterson)
3 – catchers (JPA, Molina, Napoli)
5 – infielders (tba 3rd base, Escobar, Hill, Lind, MacDonald, Encarnacion)

Napoli and Lind and Encarnacion rotating through dh and 1st base. If JPA starts the season off well, I think you will only see Napoli at 1st and dh.

by Al Bundy is my hero on Jan 24, 2011 9:29 PM EST up reply actions

No Rivera?

by T_Mizz on Jan 24, 2011 9:44 PM EST up reply actions

I think he might be moved before spring training. Bautista wants to be in RF and I think he will be. Rivera is a good backup on a contending team, I don’t think he fits here at the moment. I would hate to see him take at bats from Snider. Just my opinion.

by Al Bundy is my hero on Jan 24, 2011 9:50 PM EST up reply actions

Molina and it’s not even close.

Napoli plays 1B against LHP, Catches a couple times a week and DH’s the rest of the time… that’s how I’d work it at any rate. Too bad for Molina but his talent just doesn’t measure up when compared to what Napoli is and what JPA has the potential to be.

by Parallex on Jan 24, 2011 5:41 PM EST reply actions

but bubububutu butbut

WHO CATCHES MORROW!!?!?!?!?!?!!!

To Infinity. And BEYOND!!!

by YunelTheLazyLatino on Jan 24, 2011 10:10 PM EST up reply actions

its odd about lind

because his stats against lefties weren’t bad until last year. he batted .282/.350/.479 against LH starters in 2009, .324/.375/.486 in 2008. I think his issues against lefties last year had more to do with whatever his issues were at the plate overall. If he regains the confidence he had in 2009, I don’t think he’ll have those same issues against left-handed pitchers, since he hadn’t shown those problems in the past

by asal313 on Jan 24, 2011 5:46 PM EST reply actions

Ok I'm a bit late to the party here

AA7 as in 007, because he rocks a suit well, could probably bag any lady and he’s silent but gets the job done when it’s thought to be impossible?

by T_Mizz on Jan 24, 2011 5:55 PM EST reply actions

Bond isn’t what I’d silent. Bond is actually pretty in-your-face actually… I mean the guy tells you his name right off the bat, wrecks your stuff, and bags your woman inbetween his Vodka Martini’s (Shaken not stirred).

by Parallex on Jan 24, 2011 6:04 PM EST up reply actions

That should be

he CAN be silent, opening scene of goldeneye is pretty silent, when he bungees down the dam and pops up in the toilet stall.

by T_Mizz on Jan 24, 2011 6:19 PM EST up reply actions

i’d just get rid of molina. i’d like to see jpa start 100 games at catcher, napoli start the other 50 and get some time at 1b. with encarnacion, lind, napoli and arencibia splitting time at 1b, dh and c, there really isn’t (or at least shouldn’t be) room to get molina any at bats.

by Jono411 on Jan 24, 2011 6:14 PM EST reply actions

The Jays have to keep Molina. The whole point of starting JPA is so that he can learn the game. Molina will help him with calling a game and throwing out baserunners. Sure they have Wakamatsu to help JPA but the more help the better.
Since Napoli can also play 1st the Jays can easily keep 3 catchers. If JPA cant handle the catching duties then you have Napoli to fall back on.
Both Napoli and EE are not a part of the Jays future and when you think about it Molina may have more to do with the future (helping JPA develop) then either of them.
I think they should just sign or trade for a 3rd baseman and move Bautista to right.

by JaysFan101 on Jan 24, 2011 6:19 PM EST reply actions

Oh come now, the Jays don’t have to keep Molina. Teaching JPA the finer points of being a MLB catcher is the job of the Coach and even if you want some supplimental help on that Napoli can do it. Really, the only thing that Molina likely does better then either JPA or Napoli is accurately throw the ball to 2nd… that’s hardly worth eating up a roster spot for when teaching isn’t even his job to begin with.

by Parallex on Jan 24, 2011 6:34 PM EST up reply actions

We need to keep Molina around as a pinch runner.

by JaysSaskatchewan on Jan 25, 2011 12:20 AM EST up reply actions

or

hit for the cycle

by elpikiman on Jan 25, 2011 11:30 AM EST up reply actions

i've heard a lot of people say

napoli can call a fine game.
but yes, his arm is total crap

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by YunelTheLazyLatino on Jan 24, 2011 10:11 PM EST up reply actions

I'd have to say Molina

Try to send him down, and see if someone picks him. He’d be a good mentor to JPA, but Wakamatsu can do the same.

That being said, you could rotate Napoli between C, 1B and DH and still get Molina in there once a week. It might get confusing though.

by REMO on Jan 24, 2011 6:19 PM EST reply actions

yea, exactly. between C, 1B, DH there are 486 games to start. we probably want JPA getting ~120 of them. for molina to be worth carrying, we’d want to give him, say 40. lind we want to play basically every day, so let’s say 150. so that leaves 176 for napoli and EE to split. i guess that would be alright, but i just don’t see the reason to give those 40 games to molina instead of to napoli or EE, given that they’re both much better players than molina.

by Jono411 on Jan 24, 2011 6:33 PM EST up reply actions

I think EE is going to end up at third again personally. Napoli takes away most of EE’s expected role when he was resigned I wager and an outfield of Snider – Davis – Bautista sounds better then an outfield of Rivera – Davis – Snider.

by Parallex on Jan 24, 2011 6:43 PM EST up reply actions

I realize I've been under a rock most of the offseason

But when did we start calling Alex, AA7?
What does the “7” signify?

Trapped in the past, Craig finds himself leaping from blog to blog, putting things right that once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

by craig in calgary on Jan 24, 2011 6:39 PM EST reply actions

Beats me… first I’ve seen it is here.

by Parallex on Jan 24, 2011 6:41 PM EST up reply actions

Blue Jay Hunter coined it.

AA7 as in 007

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by JohnnyG on Jan 24, 2011 6:48 PM EST up reply actions

Wow

BlueJaydom is sure drinking the AA Kool-aid eh?

Trapped in the past, Craig finds himself leaping from blog to blog, putting things right that once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

by craig in calgary on Jan 24, 2011 6:55 PM EST up reply actions

I'm no team homer.

BUT AA IS THE GR8EST THING TO EVR HAPN IN THE HISTRY OF EVAR!

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by JohnnyG on Jan 24, 2011 7:20 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs

Rec'd for total accuracy

by T_Mizz on Jan 24, 2011 7:40 PM EST up reply actions

Rec'd for expressing yourself like 14-year-old girl...

And, I’ll warn my self this time… Don’t wag that hammer!

Festina Lente

by HESS2479 on Jan 26, 2011 2:58 PM EST up reply actions

Double A 7 – It’s a James Bond reference. I first saw it on the Jay’s Hunter blog.

by JaysSaskatchewan on Jan 24, 2011 6:49 PM EST up reply actions

Also "The Silent Assassin" came from BJH too

by KWJAYS on Jan 25, 2011 1:21 PM EST up reply actions

I know the Jays exercised Jose Molina’s option, but they could just as easily buy him out for $200,000. There just isn’t a place for him on the roster right now.

by Ian BJH on Jan 24, 2011 8:34 PM EST reply actions