Is the Astros' Infield Surplus Solved After Jeremy Peña's Injury? | Crush City Territory

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What's up everybody welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory

I'm Chandler room joined by Tyler Stafford who made us redo this once already today usually we're pretty good at

I just going and like not having to break not having to edit anything out but Tyler you messed it up. How do you feel?

It lasted three seconds and it was because you double clicked it so I don't want I don't want to hear any excuses

Very tired quit quit fuss in Chandler. Okay, that's gonna be on a t-shirt before you know it

So will so will surplus and untenable apparently

dereliction of duty that's another of my favorites

You were all right everyone that listens to this everyone that comments

Everyone that

Very nicely subscribes to the athletic and subscribes across city territory

Which you should continue to do both of those things all of you were right. There is no infield surplus

All of you were right. There was gonna be somebody that gets hurt and that person is Jeremy Pena who

Was doing what he would have been doing if he was still an asterisk camp

He was playing shortstop and an exhibition game

And he fielded a ground ball made the third of first base

nothing about the video looked

Um

Bad it looked like a very normal play but then at the end of the play you can see Jeremy kind of look at his

throwing all his throwing hand

He was out of the game the next inning

To be candid. I was told that

The asteris were told

Initially

That Pena left the game with a broken fingernail

Something that his that was a fingernail injury

Um, and so when the reporting began that afternoon

Or that afternoon and into that night that that Jeremy Pena had a fractured finger

Um, I was I was hesitant only because you know

You know it could have been semantics something could have gotten lost in translation because this did happen in the DR

This happened in the Dominican Republic and the initial reports came from

Media that is in the Dominican Republic and you know, we reached out the athletic we reached out to the the

Official press officer of team Dominican Republic in the WBC and they they told us you know

He had x-rays, but there's no official diagnosis. We don't know yet

To call it a fracture would be premature

But um the next day Jeremy Pena went to West Palm Beach saw a hand specialist

That told him he has a fracture in the fingertip of his right ring finger

He'll be evaluated and re-evaluated in two weeks

That came I believe on March 4th which meant

Opening day from March 4th was 22 days away. So

I think it's safe to say that his status for opening day is in peril

But from everything I have ascertained everything I have seen I want to be clear. I'm not in West Palm Beach

I have not talked to Jeremy. I have not talked to

I've talked to some people that are there, but not like

I have not been in these scrums from what I can ascertain from many miles away

This does not seem to be something that is going to be a long-term injury

This is not seem like something that is going to you know impact him for weeks and weeks and weeks

But it just comes at a time when he may not be ready to make the opening day roster

I don't believe you okay

Until he is back out there. I'm terrified. I don't trust any of this

I mean broken tip of a pinky or a ring finger

Seems about the best injury that you can hope for

um

But I don't I don't trust you and I don't trust that he's gonna be okay

I also was picturing you know when you're swinging right-handed

The pressure is going to be more on your left hand too because you're pulling the bat through

So it does feel like the right

Ring finger is probably about the best you can do because also when you throw the ball you're only using

You're your middle and index and thumb too

So it does seem like something that you can come back from relatively easily

um

But I don't know how much of the ass was you watch last season Chandler

uh

Thin ice with uh with injury

uh

Reports and statuses and so I will believe that he is better when he is in the starting lineup and

The Jake Myers memorial. He has to actually play. Yeah, I don't it can't just be a starting lineup

I need to see him taking a bat run to first throw a ball and then I will say okay. He's ready to go

and and he's back um

I will say

I thought that I was going to see more people

Get real fussy about it happening at the wbc and I'm glad that we led with that it seemed like people were

Pretty normal about no

In your mentions. That was a little different. Hey

You know where you also take ground balls at shortstop spring training. All right. This was not a wbc

injury. There's not some secret

Ground ball wbc yet

Well, he was just in the Dominican Dominican like he was not even at the they they their pool play is in Miami

He wasn't even in Miami yet. Yeah, he was at the wbc

Yeah, he's gonna take grounders in West Palm Beach too and he could have gotten hit on his finger

um

Yeah, I mean when it first came out, I saw the reporter was like oh, he's expected to miss maybe the first round

But he'll be back and of course as soon as I saw I was like no chances

uh

Mr. Jim gonna let him play

uh

And inning in the wbc if he got hurt already

Yeah, I don't want to wait into these waters because I do not speak Spanish

But did you see the horado prodomo interview that was making the rounds um yeah horado prodomo who was going to replace Jeremy

Payne at shortstop on the Dominican starting lineup

um

Again, I'm paraphrasing. I don't know Spanish, but people that do know Spanish have tried to translate it for me

Essentially role in prodomo said on camera that Jeremy Payne is fine, but the team didn't want to play

I'll take it. Yeah, that's sure if that's true great

Sorry for Jeremy Payne. Yeah, I'm sure that he would like to be playing. Yeah, this seems fair to be like hey

This is in two weeks. This is a big deal. I mean did you did you see the Caminero celebration last night after you

Homer? Yeah, like

It sucks for paying you this sucks for paying you that he can't be a part of that like come on this tournament's awesome

like it is really is like

and

But at the same time if if if opening day were six weeks away

I could see it

You know, maybe you can hang around with the team whatever, but they're gonna want

I mean at this point I want every house just player getting imaging done

every day

Just because that seems to be an issue

Let's get some images in there

Whatever that means just more images

But yeah, I mean he's he's not gonna get to play which is too bad because I was really looking forward to seeing

one

Notable astro player in the tournament, but

Go Shay Whitcom

Zac the Zenzos playing a dyke in park right now. I should probably be there. It should probably be there

But um, I instead of doing this how

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Was I was dyke in yesterday was bumping um it was you know it was interesting the

Well first of all if you want to watch wbc. It's always on fox one you can stream on fox one if you're watching on youtube

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Scan the QR code fox1.com seven day free trial um you can watch all the wbc games including the us and great Britain tonight

We're recording this on saturday and then

Monday night will be team mexico against team USA, which will be incredible

You will see a member of the crush city territory

host panel

participating in a pregame activity before mexico USA so get ready for that um

But so i say this all to say yesterday um

So mexico played

Britain in the first game yesterday and on the afternoon

And the mexico crowd was lit it was 12 p.m. On a friday i did not expect there to be a ton of people there

But they showed out they were loud the whole time it was

Weirdly a pretty tense game for them with britain

And it didn't break open to the latter half of the game

But they were loud the whole time it was awesome

Just goes to show you that prime time monday night with team USA and attendant that is going to be a bonkers atmosphere

mexico in the us um the mexico the team USA Brazil game like at the beginning

It was obviously pretty lit judge hit a homer and in the first inning and the place went nuts

But the way that game was played

uh

Brazil walked 17 guys

USA left 20 they left 20 no they left 13 runners on base and went five for 21 with runners in scoring position

Just a lot of missed opportunities not a lot of good pitching from britain or from brasil excuse me

It took the crowd out of it which was which was not fun, but um

At the beginning when judge hit that homer and you know the introductions and everything it was it was a cool atmosphere

Yeah, it looked fun. Uh, I agree the

The walking uh was was quite annoying to watch but

I also would not want to throw a strike to anyone in that lineup

So don't blame me for that um

But yeah, I mean, it was a what a fun

What a fun atmosphere. I had a I had a buddy go shout out Danny. He texted me from the game

said

The atmosphere is fun

So yeah, it it looked like fun. It's also fun to get into

Diakin Park before the season starts uh any

Any updates there you want to share

What how to look for our uh for our wealthy listeners

The diamond club has been completely renovated and it looks very nice

Big news for me. It looks very nice

So if you uh frequent the diamond club if you enjoy the diamond club if you can somehow afford

Season tickets in the diamond club

um first of all

I don't know what you're doing listening to this second um you're going to enjoy the new renovations because everything looks

Looks very good there um otherwise, you know

They have some different signage in the outfield just for wbc stuff. They have some different sponsors on the uh

Yeah, I like that. It's all night mode. Yeah, all the ads are dark

Yeah, that's cool

But and I saw the big star out in centerfield is back

They're not playing uh they're playing uh

They're playing deep in the heart of Texas in the eighth inning now for wbc games not during the seventh inning stretch like they normally do

Excuse me. Yeah. Why? I'm surprised they're playing I'm surprised they're playing it at all

But they're playing it in the eighth inning instead of the seventh inning um

And before the game yesterday before the u.s uh before the u.s. Brazil game

They had like they did like the big opening ceremony that night instead of for the day game

And they had a mariachi band from I believe it was sam Houston

I don't know if it was sam Houston state or a high school, but I think it was sam Houston state

And they sang um they sang a George straight song and I can't remember which one it was but it was it was such a

A melding of culture

It's see a mariachi band um singing a George straight song. Oh, it was uh

I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a good time. It was um. I don't know what it's called

But uh so they did that it was interesting. Just the story of team Brazil

Uh-huh. They get knocked out in two games. They're hanging in there. It's scoreless right now like in the middle of the fit look I

Be fully candid um, I know more about team Brazil now than I did 48 hours ago, but um

Pretty much everyone you talked to yesterday before the US Brazil game

Everyone just kind of thought this is going to be a run rule like this game is not going nine innings

Brazil has not won a wbc game in its country's history

You know, they they have not been in the tournament since 2013

Um, they had one player last night on their major on their roster that had any major league experience

um

We'll talk about him a little bit later

They literally had a teenager pitched the second inning last night

And they hung in there man like that like it was

Many Ramirez's kid hit two homers like they they made pitches when they had to like

Again, like this this could have and probably for the US should have been a run rule um

They left so many runners on base couldn't get a big hit but um

Kudos to team Brazil for for just for staying in the fight and you know right now they're scoreless with Italy through five innings

So um, you know, they're they're they're showing out a lot better than I think a lot of us in the media thought they would because

It's one of my favorite parts about the wbc is seeing

The talent discrepancy because look even

Even as bad as the Colorado Rockies were last year they can beat

Any other team on any given night like there's a chance that that could happen. It is so fun to watch

College kids and a 17 year old come in and face this lineup

And I happen to read a very good article about

This 17 year old from Brazil. Can you tell us more about that Chandler?

Yeah, so um, it's funny how things work out um sometimes so um for those of you that did not see him or don't know

Kind of know what we're talking about. I'm just gonna put I'm gonna put my story on share screen on you

On the YouTube broadcast, but only just so you guys can see his face and just kind of see like get a sense of who this kid is

I'm so his name is Joseph Contreras

he

He's 17 years and 291 days old which means he is the youngest player to ever appear in a wbc game since 2013

He is a senior at blessed Trinity high school in Roswell, Georgia

Which uh is not in spring break right now like they had class yesterday

They had a full day of school yesterday and Joseph Contreras got an excused absence because he's pitching in the wbc

For uh team Brazil. He is the son of Jose Contreras

former white socks right-hander, you know

Very very well-known Cuban player one of the first you know one of the first Cuban players to defect

And was a huge name that defected from Cuba to play in the in the United States

Joseph's mom is Brazilian, which is why he was on team Brazil, but

Yeah, he you know he's committed to Vanderbilt

But if you look at all the draft rankings, he's probably not gonna end up on campus

He's anywhere from like the 30s to 40s and various top 200 draft rankings

Prospect rankings for this upcoming draft. So he's probably looking at you know

Maybe a compound pick second-round pick kind of guy I doubt he ends up on campus and after last night

I was gonna say but no chance now. Yeah, after last night. I don't think he'll end up on campus

He comes out throwing 98

He throws the fork ball that Jose Contreras once through he got a split but

You know look

He was always on the schedule to pitch last night

But their starter team Brazil starter. I think needed like 30 something pitches to get through the first thing

So they were getting him hot in the first inning

And then he comes in the second inning

He's 98 and you know

He gets faces air and judge with the bases loaded and this is why the WBC's great, right? It's so cool like you have

The set depending on your fandom you have the second or the best baseball player in the world standing at home plate

And you have a kid that should have been in math class

earlier that afternoon

Pitching to him with the bases loaded and he ran a sinker in on judges hands

broke judges bad off sawed him in half

543 double play comes off the mound and now he's a viral celebrity and you know

It's what makes his tournament awesome

It was serendipitous that you know

I'd actually talk to Joseph before the game because when you do that when you do what I do for a living

You kind of always want to have a story in your back pocket just in case like

The game went like we thought it was going to go like they would have run rule the team and five innings

And but I'm gonna be like no one's gonna read about them destroying Brazil

So I'd have like so I had talked to Joseph before the game

I talked to him actually with friend of the pod Ken Rosenthal who probably shared a lot of that insight on the Fox broadcast

But the minute that he got judged to ground out my editors were just like you got to get that story in now

Like we don't we don't want to hold it like you write it now

So if you looked up at any point in the third inning and you saw

And you saw me frantically like

Writing 600 words in 20 minutes. That was that was my normal state. So

He seems like a great kid

Truly said he's

Said he's been doing homework

Upstairs at the hotel because he his exact quote was

All the other guys like to party like I can't go down and party with him

It's like he's not

He's 17 years old and he's like I got homework to do like I had to do math yesterday

I did social studies today and I'm like it's insane not for long buddy. Nope. You got a couple months left

No, make it through the season

You all right

But yeah, that was that was awesome. It was really cool to see that and it's you know

Didn't a couple in the last WBC what and they're like an electrician that was oh yeah

The Czech Republic that that struck out Otoni and everybody was like I mean yeah

It's like that's what there's guys coming in throwing 82 mile an hour fastballs and just praying for the best of rules

It's so much fun

This also should settle any debate that you have with your uncle while watching baseball about oh I could hit that

Aaron judge got sought off by a high school kid

You could not hit whatever pitch you think you could hit no you could not no

No, but that was that was an unquestion to me the highlight yesterday. Yeah

Like I get judged at a home or Bryce Tarrang was good from the nine hole that yeah

Like that that kid coming in 17 years old. I think they brought him the podium today

This morning just so he could kind of like bask in his glory that a whole press conference today

It's it was cool

It's cool and it's one of the reasons why this tournament's great

And it's one of the reasons why you know, I know it pains asterious fans and it pains you know fans of other teams when

Their guys go to play in this tournament, but it's why they love to play in it because of just it's it's such a it's such a unique event

That is such a good representation for the sport and a sport that needs it honestly um so you know, but they should bring the

Whoever represented these countries from last year's little league world series to all of these games

To I want to I want to see the crossover of everybody. It's so fun. All right from your lips to raw man for dears

That's not a bad idea. Maybe in the you know quarterfinals get these get these kids out there have them sit on the bench in there. It'd be fun

So now that

Asterious fans will not get to watch Jeremy Paine you playing the WBC

They don't get to watch he sock parade is playing the WBC either because he

His hamstring blew up last year Tony Paris Chica had an aggressive scent

Tony Paris Chica had an aggressive scent

From first base yesterday for team Mexico and it worked guy scored from first on a double

Uh, very aggressive scent, but that's the only astero that you can watch um at dyke in park in the WBC is their base good shunny

Paris Chica uh anti-petit. Oh, yeah, he's a pitching coach

Um, he told my mother he told he told the US pitching staff to give up two homers to manage his kid yesterday

Boy, you should have heard them talking about my co-walkers change up

Uh, that was

Way knows on the broadcast Adam way right and walk are very close and that change up is awesome

So it makes sense. Yeah, it's it's a curveball basically

I mean they were probably they were probably reading the media guy by the sixth inning when Brazil was walking three guys and inning

But it was uh, it was a slog, but yeah, man, it's it's so fun watching. I I love just having

All the games up. I'm just watching everything. I'm having a lot of fun

So now that um, we know

Jeremy Pania is

At least his status is in doubt for opening day. Uh, I'll throw the throw the question to you Tyler because

Everyone hates when I talk about it. So you're gonna get to talk about it. Is the infield surplus solved?

Uh, definitely can't trade parades now

Uh, I mean

I don't trust this finger and I don't trust the people looking at the fingers to make sure that the finger is okay

Until he's back out there. You got your surplus solved. If only there were some

Gold glove shortstop ready to go already on your roster that you could slot over there

Let parades play a third base. Oh wait

That's why we have all these people that Chandler won't let us have he keeps forcing the Astros. That's my favorite

Genre of people in your replies the ones who think

Well, if you just would stop saying this the Astros wouldn't think about training

Brady's or that it's like that I'm like manifesting it

Then like I want it to happen. Yeah, I'm just telling you what I'm being told like Chandler barely thinks about the Astros while he's there

I promise you when he is at home. He is not

having additional thoughts

About the use of Astros and what they should do with their roster. You come more accurate. Yes. Yeah

Yeah

There's your there's your line up now. Korea is a short parades a third

I'll to base it. What a fun

I can't wait to see

And I'll to a flip to korea and then we'll just a cannon arm coming from korea over there. I'm ready. Let me let me see it

so

Is it solved in the short term? Yes, like if Jeremy Pania is not ready for opening day. They are

Completely covered like it is it's plug and play you and Joe spot us the foul territory the the daily show

They were in camp on friday and Joe spot did an interview on the on foul territory and said

Carlos korea will be the shortstop if Jeremy Pania is not ready for opening day

So take the thought of esok parades playing shortstop out of your head. Carlos korea is going to short

Who had that thought?

There were people there were people there were not there. Oh, there was not there were people that asked that's not true

Yeah, there were um, so

Parades will play third korea play short

Mm-hmm

again

With this even with the audit they did on the return to play procedure and even with you know having a new trainer and having a new strength coach like

You never want to take anything for granted with an astro and injuries

But at least on the surface this does appear to not be a long-term thing

This seems like something that at best Jeremy Pania will not will not need to miss a significant amount of time

So when that when that time period is up

We're right back to square one of what we have been talking about for two or three months. It's why I'm not

I'm not totally gonna sit here and say like oh, they can't trade breeze now

Like oh, it's like it's completely off the table and it's done like I mean

Does this lessen the likelihood that they will? Yes, obviously

Is this the sort of

Jump scare to maybe like really make Dana Brown

reconsider kind of the thoughts because again like

You guys can yell at me all you want you guys can tweet at me and comment on my stories that I'm the one pushing this like guy

I'm not pulling this from thin air. This isn't something I made up like this is

This is what they are doing they have been shopping east sock parade is

internally and externally to the rest of the baseball world

They've been shopping in for two and a half months like this is not like

This is not like I'm sitting here and there and like the ashras are not doing this like yes

They have been trying to trade him for two months

Maybe this is the jump scare that maybe makes them like all right like let's let's pull back a little bit

Let's let's not be so gung ho and to give them credit

They have been pretty

hesitant with how they've approached because they have such a high price on them and they haven't moved it

And that's been they've been very cautious about that. They're not going to sell him for pennies on the dollar

And this is only going to reinforce that but

if Jeremy Paine is back in

Within a week or two of the season

And everyone else remains healthy

Then this is what you're counting on to make this work you're counting on

Freak injuries that Jeremy Paine you like one that Jeremy Paine you just to say you're you're counting on

All of your other guys to have something similar happen

Because like we've said

Given everything Joa spot has said about who he wants to play where

Who's going to get the most amount of playing time at DH at second base at all these different positions

This is not going to work unless people get hurt and

I guess congratulations to those that were so anti against it like you got some

Somebody got hurt congrats to you. You were right

But unless that keeps happening over and over again

We're going to be back in the same you know cycle of talking about this in about three weeks or a month

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Okay figure it out then yeah no and who cares yes I

But it's why I understand I

Look a little a little peek behind the curtain

How reporting works is

people tell Chandler things

And then sometimes he says their names because he needs to use a quote and then sometimes he just takes that information and writes it down

without saying the quote

but

That's where the information he's not just

Making so people come up to him and be like hey by the way we're trying to trade

East operaties. This is what's going on

And Chandler is also allowed to talk to people from other teams and they will say

Yeah, the ashris called me yesterday and said this is what they want for East operaties because those people don't care

If that story gets out because it's not their team and that's how reporting works

And

Yeah, of course it's going to happen at some point but not right now

You got opening day in three weeks and I mean look

You

Talk about freak entries. You know who's

Who gets injured quite a bit is a lot of the people on the ashris that they're counting on that are filling these spots

Um, he's talking about Christian Walker played 156 games like you sure did and uh there's another

There's a couple other fellows in the infield

Uh who who may get hurt at some point but even at the I mean again

Figure it out then when pain you get back

You still can make it work temporarily again the the issue

With the way that the rosters constructed is not day of what do you do

You can make a lineup

On on any given day with how the ashris have their roster constructor right now

It's how do you consistently do it for 162 games? That's the hard part

But any given day you can make a lineup that's going to make most people

Okay

Um

And right now you your your teams filled out like I that's that that should put a stop to any trade conversations

Unless you get a call that someone is even more desperate and they're going to

Do it and you trust your imaging and your fingers and what not uh but

Yeah, they hadn't traded him yet right but I but what I would caution is just I would caution that

I would caution anyone that saw the pain your news and say oh

Paratis is an astro forever now. No, he's the whole he's here with us the whole season

He's here with us to the trade deadline like

No, like like again if this was a more serious injury if this was something that

If it was a hammy bone that needed you know six weeks if it was a hamps if it was a hamstring like you sock paratis head last year

If it was an oblique saying all of this right

I get it don't name other injuries

But again, I think

This is how it's going to have to work

To to make it to make this work for 162 games. They're going to need like

Four more instances like this and I don't know that you want that do you want your guys like

Every guys constantly getting hurt. No, I don't think anyone wants that so no they will figure it out at some point

But not not until pain is back out there don't figure it out then

Um

You know who you know who right now is still the astros backup catcher Tyler

Uh

See says our cells are of course right now

mains the astros backup cell is our slither and over there

Right now as Dana Brown has said numerous times right now he remains a backup catcher

But there is more competition now if you listen to if you listen to crushedity territory for any length of time

You knew a month and a half ago that the astros had expressed interest in Christian Vasquez

It was never going to be on a major league deal

Just given Vasquez's age given his last two years of performance

It was never going to be a big league deal and I think

Vasquez was waiting out to see if he could get a big league deal

That obviously did not manifest to the astros signed him to a minor league deal with an invitation a big league camp

On Saturday today they signed in this morning

He is playing for Puerto Rico in the WBC. So uh Jim crane cover your ears, but um he

Will be returning once once he finishes in the WBC with Puerto Rico

He'll go back to and here report to astros camp he'll report to West Palm Beach. So he's not in camp yet

But this is the competition to push say sarsalazar for the backup catcher job

um

Christian Vasquez has objectively been a bad player for the last three years like I don't think we can argue otherwise

um

He has a 60 OPS plus since 2023 career

Um, he's a good defensive catcher. He's a guy that you know

Pictures like throwing to he is your prototypical backup catcher

He is you know never going he's gonna do everything right behind the plate. He's going to

You know call a good game. He's a veteran savvy presence that can you know

Knows the nuances and can pick up stuff knows when teams maybe have a tell knows when knows when his guys are tipping things like that

Is not going to provide much of anything at

offensively um, it's you but to be fair

There's no backup catcher out there that would have provided would victor keratini has provided for you at the last two years

So the fact that they were going that that they were going to go find a victor keratini replacement on the open market was just

Very misguided because

He played better than almost any backup catcher in the sport last year

Um, but one thing they needed to do um

I just

I mean if you don't realize it by now. I don't really know what to tell you. I don't think the astros are comfortable

Carrying a guy and say sar salazar that's caught 14 career big league games

On their roster and asking him to catch

You know, maybe 50 or 60 games this year and that's being generous like you know, there's there's the situation where you could see the astros backup catcher

Maybe appear in 70 games and if you need youiner to dh if you need to get youiner off his feet things like that

Um, they needed some veteran competition. They needed just an insurance policy in case they decide that say sar salsars

Not what they want on their roster and they got that in christian vazquez

Yeah, you know what you're getting he's gonna hit 180 and he's gonna run into a homer once a month

Uh, but he is an adult and knows how to catch and that's that's fine. That's all you need

And maybe they'll make a a move at some point to upgrade back up catcher, but

Again, if your season is

Hinging on backup catcher something has gone terribly wrong

But I will say this I don't think the astros are necessarily constructed as

First and foremost a run prevention team. I think if they are I think if they're lineup is healthy

They are certainly not a team that you look at and it's like all right

They're only going to score three or four. I know you saw it last year, but that team was not healthy last year

When this line-ups at full strength. I think this is a top half of the league offense when it's at full strength

So I wouldn't say that this is a run prevention team first and foremost

But it's a lot of what they do a lot of their identity is pitching in defense and

You know a catcher is pretty important in all of that and I'm just not and I haven't been convinced since the beginning of the

Offseason that they trust a guy that's only caught 14 big league games to be such an integral part of that operation and

For say sports allies are it's tough because he's got a minor league options

So he's either got to make the roster at a camp or they've got to expose him to waivers where

You know, I haven't really thought about if he'd get claimed on waivers um

Because you know, there's such a lean major league sample size

But there are other teams out there that are not trying to win

There are teams out there that have open spots that could give him some runway

That could just like hey you come be our backup catcher

We don't mind playing you

Catching you 60 65 games a year because we're not trying to win and say so our salazar is an excellent clubhouse guy

Like excellent vibes guy

He is beloved in there like pitchers love throwing them everything about it

So he would upgrade any clubhouse in the big leagues. So um, they're going to have to make a decision

Do they maybe you know, I don't know would they carry three catchers

Especially if pain is not ready for opening day like could they have a permutation where

They carry three catchers probably not but in the absence of that they're going to have to make an actual decision

Because they've got to decide on say saras are by the time camp by the time camps over

Yeah, well, we'll see I mean obviously Vasquez is playing in the WBC. So

Just be watching from there, but again, I mean you you kind of know what you're getting with with both of those guys

Um, yeah, it'll be interesting to see I mean

It whatever if he goes the waivers and he gets picked up by somebody else that's

I think you're again, you know what you're getting with Christian Vasquez like he's

He can't get worse offensively. I don't think and you know that he can catch and call a game

So it just it just depends on

If you need that stability or not. I mean you're again, you're not no you're not rolling the dice and hoping he finds

An offensive resurgence at age 37 after hitting 180 last year

But if you're saying we need somebody that we know can catch 50 60 games

uh

Then you can do worse in Christian Vasquez

Yeah, and it's all I mean it's either him or I mean Jonah Himes signed already, but it's like they could trade him for

Will you're a brave you

See if that see if that works out how that work out the first time

Actually pretty good actually pretty good. They want to work. They want to know if you remember

Yeah, I think they would do that again

I think they would too um, but I think they'd prefer the Wilson conchairs for Jose or Keati that they had lined up

Wouldn't have had to do that. They would have still had willier brave in their farm system

And we wouldn't be sitting here talking about why they need to go trade for a left-handed hitting outfielder

But here we are and we will continue to discuss

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