OT: J.P. Arencibia

[Randle McMurphy]

I'd be surprised if the Indians even knew what Yan Gomes could be. Nobody saw that coming.

I disagree. There was clear upside there because of his absurd stance. Despite said stance, he put up a career minor league OPS of .830. Now that the Indians have finally improved his hitting mechanics, it's no surprise he's an actual better hitter than before.

Yan Gomes is yet another example of the Jays at times dysfunctional minor league development system. That not one batting coach or roving instructor identified Gomes' stance as a significant problem is quite the indictment.

Hopefully things have improved since then. Gose's stance and swing look good to me, so there's that... hopefully with more reps he puts things together.

If there was upside there, it seems only Cleveland knew about it. Because nobody else in the baseball world made any noise about him getting moved as an afterthought for a reliever.

[Ado05]

JP demoted by the Rangers

The Texas Rangers optioned struggling catcher J.P. Arencibia to Round Rock and selected the contract of catcher Chris Gimenez from their Triple-A affiliate.

Arencibia, the club’s opening day catcher, is hitting .133 with one home run with six RBIs in 20 games

http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/ ... ngers.html

[Regulator]

I'm convinced we would have won at least 10 extra games last season if he wasn't our catcher.

[RaptorJ]

I'm convinced we would have won at least 10 extra games last season if he wasn't our catcher.

I was gonna post something like this but you said it.

How many of the games in this recent streak would've been losses having JPK as basically an auto-out for the opposing team?

[Regulator]

I'm convinced we would have won at least 10 extra games last season if he wasn't our catcher.

I was gonna post something like this but you said it.

How many of the games in this recent streak would've been losses having JPK as basically an auto-out for the opposing team?

Yes him striking out all the time was a big part of the problem, but I was thinking about his terrible defence and mismanagement of the pitching staff. Just an awful attitude and player

[Lucky26]

I'd be surprised if the Indians even knew what Yan Gomes could be. Nobody saw that coming.

I wouldn't put it past the CLE org though, they've had one of the first, best, and biggest analytical staff in the bigs.