Santoki wrote:I don't normally get into the Navarro/Martin thing but at this point in the season I would have liked to see Martin play after his great game yesterday. You can always play Navarro the next night and let him catch Buehrle. I know he's a lefty but I think you go with the hot hand when you're down 5.5 games in the division.
You could make arguments to sit Martin tomorrow or sit him tonight. Martin caught all 3 games except for a couple innings in oakland, which included an afternoon after night game because Dickey was pushed ahead a start. With the night off today he can catch both afternoon games in Seattle as well as the 4 night games during the week next week. This Navarro and Estrada tandem has worked well though, Buerhle and Martin completely shut down the running game of opposing teams, and we know Martin has to catch Dickey. Hutch needs no catcher just home games and Doubront needs to turn into David Price.