Minor League Catchers

Lateral Quicks · Post #1 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Thu May 27, 2010 12:20 pm

Both Brian Jeroloman at New Hampshire and Travis D'Arnaud at Dunedin are ripping the cover off the ball so far this year. Granted, it's early, but I'd like to see them both bumped up a level. Arencibia is hitting .238 in hitter-friendly Las Vegas, so I'm not sure what should be done there.

D'arnaud's stats:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb ... pid=518595

Jeroloman's stats:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb ... pid=502089

Assuming Jeroloman stays anywhere close to what he's doing now, and Arencibia stays in the dumps, I 'd like to see Jerolman up as a September call-up this year to platoon w/ Buck. Earlier if he performs at the AAA level.

Catcher is a real position of long-term need for the big club going forward. I'd much rather see a Jerolman backing up Buck at this point than Molina.

WpgPage · Post #2 » by **WpgPage** » Thu May 27, 2010 5:51 pm

Jeroloman is also striking out a unbelievable 37% of the time, way to high to think about promoting him yet, and D'arnaud needs at least most of the year in A moving him up to quickly would be very bad for his development.

SargentBargs101 · Post #3 » by **SargentBargs101** » Sat May 29, 2010 2:28 am

we have quite a few catchers that can probably become future starters in the big league... i still have faith in arencibia.

WpgPage · Post #4 » by **WpgPage** » Sat May 29, 2010 2:43 am

I agree with you while i dont think JP has the stuff to be a all star i do think he can be a solid starter with good power but a lower average, batting 7th hitting around 20-25 HR and batting around 260 similar to a John Buck type of guy but a little bit better overall.

Randle McMurphy · Post #5 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Sat May 29, 2010 9:10 am

Has Jeroloman changed his entire approach at the plate or something?

Small sample size, but for somebody with his track record to be mashing with power like this...it's a bit ridiculous.

WpgPage · Post #6 » by **WpgPage** » Sat May 29, 2010 1:46 pm

He has actually yes, read on BB his approach and swing is basically a polar opposite to how its been in the past. So i guess you can maybe excuse the insane K% for now i mean he relearned how to hit the baseball lol

-MetA4- · Post #7 » by **-MetA4-** » Sat May 29, 2010 4:10 pm

Randle McMurphy wrote:Has Jeroloman changed his entire approach at the plate or something?

Small sample size, but for somebody with his track record to be mashing with power like this...it's a bit ridiculous.

Callis told me he is playing over his head; just a hot streak.

Currently has a completely unsustainable .492 BABIP and a LD% that is 7-8% higher than anything he has shown previously.

Post #8 » by **Schad** » Sat May 29, 2010 4:28 pm

-MetA4- wrote:
Callis told me he is playing over his head; just a hot streak.

Currently has a completely unsustainable .492 BABIP and a LD% that is 7-8% higher than anything he has shown previously.

Plus, he's a 25 year old in his third season in AA. I'm hopeful that he can be a good backup (the bar is exceptionally low for that), but I don't expect much more.

Hoopstarr · Post #9 » by **Hoopstarr** » Sat May 29, 2010 5:29 pm

-MetA4- wrote:
Randle McMurphy wrote:Has Jeroloman changed his entire approach at the plate or something?

Small sample size, but for somebody with his track record to be mashing with power like this...it's a bit ridiculous.

Callis told me he is playing over his head; just a hot streak.

Currently has a completely unsustainable .492 BABIP and a LD% that is 7-8% higher than anything he has shown previously.

You know Jim Callis?

Can you help me differentiate between these four people?

raptorforlife88 · Post #10 » by **raptorforlife88** » Sun May 30, 2010 5:21 pm

D'Arnaud is the guy who has a chance at becoming a really good starting catcher.

Arencibia just looks like another Barajas now. Jeroloman is good defensively, but offensively looks like Zaun.

Modern_epic · Post #11 » by **Modern_epic** » Sun May 30, 2010 6:41 pm

raptorforlife88 wrote:D'Arnaud is the guy who has a chance at becoming a really good starting catcher.

Arencibia just looks like another Barajas now. Jeroloman is good defensively, but offensively looks like Zaun.

I'm not sure what you mean here; Zaun is a pretty solid offensive catcher. If Jeroloman was Zaun offensively and good defensively, he would be an above average starting catcher.

raptorforlife88 · Post #12 » by **raptorforlife88** » Sun May 30, 2010 8:06 pm

Modern_epic wrote:I'm not sure what you mean here; Zaun is a pretty solid offensive catcher. If Jeroloman was Zaun offensively and good defensively, he would be an above average starting catcher.

That wasn't really hating on Zaun, more that Jeroloman isn't going to continue batting as well as he's done this year in the minors.

Zaun's average offensively though.

Post #13 » by **Schad** » Sun May 30, 2010 8:12 pm

raptorforlife88 wrote:That wasn't really hating on Zaun, more that Jeroloman isn't going to continue batting as well as he's done this year in the minors.

Zaun's average offensively though.

From 2000-2010, he posted an OPS+ of 95...below-average overall, but above-average for a catcher.

Randle McMurphy · Post #14 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Sun May 30, 2010 9:53 pm

Why does everybody underrate the Z-man?

http://www.greggzaun.com/