Yankees Have Interest In Another Catcher

Oh to have a new catcher on this roster. What a nice thought, right? Because Austin Wells sucks and his .153 batting average isn’t going to help fix anything. I’m just sick of thinking, talking, blogging about or watching him. I’d just like to dump him and be done with it.

The Yankees have this bad habit of falling in love with all of these guys that score well on their crazy evaluations. Then they get excited and dub him the guy for the job, the guy that helps lead the Yankees to the promise land of a championship. Then, it doesn’t take long to see him not live up to their great expectations and he falters and the Yankees spend more time defending their screwup rather than fixing the problem.

We’ve been in the last stage for too long. He sucks, the Yankees defend him and he sucks sucking and we keep losing. Meanwhile, the Yankees are sniffing around for another catcher. The Yankees have been tied to Ryan Jeffers, and he would be a fine upgrade (anyone would honestly), but the Twins are a competitive team. They have a real chance to make the postseason, so the Twins moving Jeffers seems extremely unlikely.

And then there is Hunter Goodman. He’s also someone that might be hard to move but for a different reason. The Rockies stink. They are 24 games back in their division and in last place. Keeping Goodman doesn’t help them contend but it does allow the Rockies to build around him. He’s under team control for the next three seasons. There’s no real reason to get rid of him unless another team gives the Rockies something that they just can’t refuse.

Which will be hard for the Yankees. They don’t exactly have a ton of blue chip prospects to give up and the ones they do have, they don’t want to. The Rockies are going to start by asking for George Lombard Jr, Dax Kilby, Elmer Rodriguez, and possibly even Ben Rice. It would be not be an “affordable” move for the Yankees. The Yankees would have quite a challenge to outbid other suitors (because there will be several) and have enough attractive chips to get it done. It certainly wouldn’t be easy.

But boy is it necessary. He is everything Wells isn’t. He’s a tight handed bat and productive offensively and maybe not quite as good defensively but…who cares! He’s not bad behind the plate and we need guys that can hit the ball. We need that idea of ‘see the ball, hit the ball and put it in play,’ and he can do that. Wells can’t hit the broad side of a barn with the world’s biggest bat. It’s time to fix the problem that has been ignored for too long.

Wells needs to go….the Yankees need to pick a replacement. Pick anyone, seriously….choose the “eeny meeny miny moe” method for all I care but it’s time to fix this wrong!