Carl is now coaching teenage boys. Good times. Supposedly there was a Milton Bradley sighting as well.
Chris Carter as a catcher is far more valuable than Chris Carter as a 1B. Needs a little bit more of the tangible-intangible to become the George Springer as a C (which is more valuable than anything). He has a **** ton of just natural ability which should scare everybody at the possibility of him "figuring stuff out".
He’s not ever going to get better at working counts and building AB’s imo and I’m as team Yainer as any human being in the world. It’s just not his nature I don’t think. Hope I’m wrong bc, yeah, that’s the difference between him being solid starter/fringe all star and MVP candidate kind of guy.
He had it pretty well figured out last year and the year before. Way more than Chris Carter ever did. Yainer had a bad April this year. Looks like he’s getting back on track with a solid May.
He can only improve with repeated reps. Young player. Maybe it takes 5-8 years of grinding it out before he makes the jump to laying off certain bad pitches. I agree, he will always be a free swinger to some degree but perhaps over time it can be tempered with repetition and experience. In the meantime, I still think he can hit around .280-.300 with significant pop. He was an rbi machine last year just sending balls right back up the middle for singles with guy in scoring position. Yainer hit .360 with risp last year. There is an elite hitter in there trying to come out.
Oh well. Thanks for everything Chas. Good luck. He got a raw deal pretty much the whole time he was here.
He also has a great arm. He needs to work on his transfer which has gotten slower each year. When framing is mo longer a thing, his ratings as a catcher will go up as well. And it would be nice if pitchers helped him out by holding runners even a little.
I was hoping Yordan was coming back. I agree with Tomstro that we may have seen the last of Chas. He's right that he was screwed out of a fair chance in 2023 by Dusty and by injury in 2024. Fair or not fair, he is a bad fit for this roster so there may not he a spot for him when he recovers. And he just looks out of shape to me. He looks thicker than in the past. I wonder if that's true and if it contributed to an oblique strain?
If Chaz was actually GOOD, he would play. He is not consistent and never has been. That's the problem.
They say it's "60% healed"....but it's hard to trust them. Either they knew he had a fracture all along and lied about it, or they are a special kind of incompetent that should be fired for not getting xrays done.
