Morosi: Where have all the good offensive catchers gone?

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http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/mlb- ... ere-052412

Nice article. He doesn't mention Jays here, but makes a point of singling out Jays depth in a followup tweet.

[Attonitus]

I understand the toil catching takes on a player, especially the knees, but I have never understood why it's always been so accepted for catchers to specialize on either offence or defense.

It always seems like it's one or the other and it's just chalked up to being a difficult position. The overall standard for acceptable offence is far too low for the position, it's OK to bat .200 as long as you can hit 20 HR's. So you either have a blackhole at the bottom of your lineup or a guy who's going to give the other team free bases with poor defense.

Hopefully, D'Arnaud is the whole package.

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Law has named d'Arnaud his fourth best prospect.

http://blogs.thescore.com/djf/2012/05/2 ... -prospect/

[satyr9]

It pisses me off that the teams with the two biggest pending FA starters have such monster surprise offensive C's this year. Kinda ruins all hope we spend our big excess C depth on the best available SP we can get, which maybe is a good thing, but Hamels or Greinke would be pretty sweet for the stretch run. Well, I'll take King Felix as a runner up (more like Garza realistically, but I can dream).