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Post by iii on Dec 12, 2018 20:03:42 GMT -5
Not the job but a shot in spring training?
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Dec 12, 2018 20:05:04 GMT -5
No. Lin and Holt show.
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Post by iii on Dec 12, 2018 20:12:04 GMT -5
does Swihart have more upside offensively and is keeping him as an emergency 3rd catcher when you consider the lack on minor league capable catching in the system make holding on to him valuable enough for a look see at 2nd?
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Post by libertine on Dec 12, 2018 20:22:55 GMT -5
If Swihart is with the team after camp breaks next spring his role will primarily be to catch. And I am fairly certain a catcher is what the team views him as. At some point between now and the start of the 2019 season one of the catchers will probably be moved. So if Swihart is still with the club he will have to focus on catching...
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Dec 12, 2018 20:23:12 GMT -5
Everything the Sox have said pretty much says Swihart will be a catcher and that one of the catchers will be gone. Lin and Holt would be far better options there anyways.
edit: What libertine and Pedro said
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Post by libertine on Dec 12, 2018 20:25:50 GMT -5
Yeah, agreed. I actually hope they give Lin a look if Pedey isn't ready. I love Holt in the utility role.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Dec 12, 2018 20:29:08 GMT -5
If Petey isn't healthy and Swihart isn't traded he'd be the forth option behind Lin, Holt and (*shudder) Nunez.
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Post by Don Caballero on Dec 12, 2018 20:40:48 GMT -5
This thread reminds me of seeing this psychologist you know back in the day and she asked to keep a pen and paper near my bed to write down my dreams so we could talk about it afterwards. One morning I woke with absolutely no recollection of ever getting up prior to that and I found "time to new dive" written on the paper. To this day I have no idea what it meant or how it even got there. Like... What?
To me this proposition feels very much like that. It's not even that I agree or disagree, it's so psychedelic I don't even understand it.
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Post by iii on Dec 12, 2018 20:44:27 GMT -5
i would agree that Lin would be my 1st choice but i love Swihart's offensive potential and i would hate to trade a catcher with what we have in the system. let's think outside the box and see if a High School SS, USA Baseball's 18-Under National Team 3B, with MLB games at 1B, 2B, 3B, LF, RF and C can hit enough in the spring to compete for the position.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Dec 12, 2018 21:05:08 GMT -5
Swihart does not necessarily have more offensive upside than Lin or Holt, and he has much more significant defensive downside given that he's played the position for two innings as a pro. Swihart's offensive upside is as a catcher, which is one of the reasons why it never, ever made sense for them to try him in left field in 2016 - there really wasn't "good left field bat" upside necessarily, although that doesn't necessarily mean what it once did if you look at MLB position splits these days.
Anyway, Dombrowski has made clear he'd like to trade one of the three catchers. The Realmuto deal probably needs to happen first, but I could see a team working its way down to Boston after that happens.
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