The catcher thing again
Today on Pirates.com we now have a full article about the Ryan Doumit/Humberto Cota "competition" after seeing a question about the two in Ed Eagle's mailbag 10 days ago. Like I said when I saw the mailbag a week and a half ago, there is absolutely no place for a competition anywhere at catcher, unless you want to make Cota and Paulino battle for a spot on the big league team (and truthfully, that might not be much of a competition either). Cota can't hit, he can't get on base, and his defense isn't good enough to make up for the giant gap in bats between him and Doumit. That's all there is to it, end of story. We heard a lot about Tracy blindly playing guys in LA because they played better defense, will this be the first place it happens in Pittsburgh?