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David Coonce
Seems like the perfect landing spot; a team without a starting catcher in a good park for hitters. Saltalamacchia has decent on-base skills for a catcher and has hit for a some power in the past. He’s only 30, so he might have something left. Good no-risk move for Arizona, although they had to make it out of necessity. And again, classy move by the Marlins to release him while he was celebrating the birth of his son.
Cam
It’s a business, not a cuddle circle.
David Coonce
Even a business should treat its employees with some modicum of respect.
Cam
Holding onto Salty just because he recently had a child, would have been disrespectful to the player (employee) that they would have had to hold back because of that.
How would that conversation go? “Sorry kid, we can’t give you that break and cut you a Major League check yet, it’s kind of a sensitive time..”
Salty was being paid $21million to do a job. He was doing a bad job. Now he’s getting paid $21million not to do the job.
Congratulations on the child, and good luck in Arizona. That’s Baseball.
David Coonce
I understand all that, but why not just wait the extra day or two until his paternity leave ended, right? I’m sure I care about it a lot more than he does; he’s getting paid either way and now he gets to play maybe.
0vercast
He can wipe his Salty tears with the enormous checks the Marlins still owe him.
Bombercules
How are they still deluding themselves into thinking O’Brien can catch?
Pei Kang
as opposed to having Tuffy Gosewisch/Salty?
jamesa-2
At least Tuffy is above average behind the plate. He just has no power at all and doesn’t take walks. O’Brien legitimately has difficulty throwing the ball back to the pitcher.
Salty is just moving deck chairs. His potential for offensive upside comes at the expense of having any defense at all behind the plate, while asking an unproven crop of fringey pitchers to pitch to a guy with poor game-calling/framing skills.
Pei Kang
eh, none of those guys are great options for the Dbacks, unfortunately. Makes the salary dump of Montero a little short-sighted, right?
jamesa-2
A combination of pride (not wanting to admit they were wrong from day one and should have never accepted him in the Prado trade) and the fact that they have ZERO other options available, meaning they might as well keep trying.
vonjunk
It was a different crew making the Prado trade, so I suspect pride isn’t a reason. (The new crew has been willing to shake things up and not run things the way Kevin Towers did.) I would suspect they are trying to build his value and perhaps train him enough to play OF. If he hits enough they should play him a bit and ship him off to an AL team in need of a DH. Just as they should do with Trumbo.
jamesa-2
TLR was already on board when the Prado deal was made. I agree though, O’Brien probably should stay in the OF. I wouldn’t even mind him directly replacing Trumbo at this point. However, with Tomas hanging around, it’s probably best if both Trumbo and O’Brien are moved.
stymeedone
They have deluded themselves into thinking Salty can catch, so the bar must be low.
vonjunk
Just for the extra cost of all the letters stitched onto the jersey I’m not sure if it’s a good deal. Actually, getting a minor league deal really works well for the DBacks.
Daniel Morairity
I’m ok with this signing of the dbacks getting salty but it wont help them this year because the dodgers padres and giants are fighting for a spot in the wild card even though its early
Pinstriped Empire
He sucks. Save the BS