Wong has a career .680 OPS. Delay has a career .610 OPS. While Wong did struggle for the Sox last year, Delay was lighting AA and AAA to the tune of a .518 OPS as he was not good enough for the Pirates.
Don’t be fooled by 15 spring training plate appearances…
Thaiss was so popular this offseason thr best offer he received was a minor league deal with an upward mobility clause. The Sox might add him over Wong for some depth, but I’m not sure why any team that was completely uninterested in Thaiss from November until January 31 might now suddenly be interested him, unless that team has seen a backup catcher go down. Has there been any such injury?
Arguing the offensive merits of Wong vs Thaiss for back up catcher is like arguing over which member of the three stooges you’d have the most confidence in as your heart surgeon…
Well, when you play for 23 years you’re probably not the same hitter in year 22 that you were in year 2.
And that sentence doesn’t need the word “probably”…
I just cannot figure out how this guy is successful throwing changeup after changeup after changeup after changeup. I mean, is it really a changeup if you never throw a fastball to change it up from?
Doug Jones got like 300 career saves doing the same thing. And it confused me back then…
Unless the line of thought was “we haven’t had a decent 2b since Pedroia, and not even ‘most recent Pedroia’, so if this guy can hit and find 2b on the diamond, that puts him ahead of Vaughn Grissom at the top of the depth chart”…
Or on the “maybe he’s like Bogaerts and Devers in that he has a spot where he is comfortable and likes to play and when that all happens he has been known to crush baseballs wuth authority.”
Whether anyone likes the reason or not, it has to be considered as a possibly for issuing that statement. No one said every statement has to be a pearl of wisdom…