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Old 10-08-2009, 02:07 PM   #19
TC81190
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Re: Neftali Soto, Catcher?

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Originally Posted by Kc61 View Post
If you want a competent defensive team, then you probably should stick to real catchers. Soto's probably never played there before, is 20 years old, and it's not a position one just picks up.

Unfortunately, many good hitters play COF and CIF. That's just how it goes, they are gifted offensively but perhaps not defensively. So you sift through, pick the best ones, trade the others.
If the options are having Soto as a bad CIF/OF or a bad catcher, I'd rather have him as a catcher (assuming he had enough defense to get by at the position.) We don't really have a spot for any more corner players. And catchers have better trade value.
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