Surprising Tek + OPS

[Louis Martel]

According to Tony Mazz last season the Sox catching corps OPS rankings
were 26th in MLB and 13 th in the AL. Very, very, bad.

At this years AS break the OPS rankings are 5th in MLB and 3rd in the
AL, which is very, very, good. This of course has to do mainly with a
resurgence of sorts by the Tek.

Let us hope the second half will continue being as good.

"Sweet Lou"

[ka...@notme.com]

Hear! Hear! Way to go, Tek!

kate

[McDuck]

Here is the list (minimum 200 PAs):

AMERICAN LEAGUE
SEASON: 2009, Position, Catcher

Player OPS
1 Joe Mauer 1.069
2 Mike Napoli .899
3 Jorge Posada .877
4 Victor Martinez .859
5 Jason Varitek .826
6 A.J. Pierzynski .789
7 Kurt Suzuki .753
8 Miguel Olivo .743
9 Rod Barajas .691
10 Gerald Laird .690
11 Jarrod Saltalamacchia .664
12 Dioner Navarro .586

As big a surprise (well, I did predict up) as Tek's numbers are on the
up side, Navarro's numbers aremore surprising on the down side. He was
a real force last year.

AMERICAN LEAGUE
SEASON: 2008, Position, Catcher

Player OPS
1 Mike Napoli .960
2 Kelly Shoppach .865
3 Joe Mauer .864
4 Dioner Navarro .757
5 A.J. Pierzynski .728
6 Gerald Laird .727
7 Miguel Olivo .722
8 Kurt Suzuki .716
9 Jarrod Saltalamacchia .716
10 Ramon Hernandez .714
11 Ivan Rodriguez .714
12 Rod Barajas .704
13 Victor Martinez .701
14 Gregg Zaun .700
15 Brandon Inge .672
16 Jason Varitek .672
17 John Buck .669
18 Jeff Clement .654
19 Kenji Johjima .609
20 Jeff Mathis .593
21 Jose Molina .576

[StanTheMan_Stasiak]

"McDuck" <wallyDELE...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:vd6n55ppfaepnj6il...@4ax.com...

Wow, too bad that the Sox didn't listen to Cafardo and the other Sox-hating
mediots who were saying they "had to make the deal, they're going to have to
send Clay Buchholz to the Rangers for Saltalamacchia." I'm sure the Sox
would be better without Clay and with a catcher who has almost 160 points
lower OPS and is much worse defensively.