Christian Vázquez is Flashing Some Red Flags

[nicksaviking]

Hopefully Jeffers does to Vazquez what Mitch Garver did to Jason Castro. I was never against the signing, but I still can’t understand why fans always clamor for glove-first players. We’ve seen this play out dozens of times; pitchforks come out when the bats don’t produce. Plus defenders only look good on paper. If they don’t hit, their leash gets short.

[dxpavelka]

Could be worse.  Most of the writers on here spent the whole fall pleading for us to sign Omar Narvaez.

[nicksaviking]

On 6/4/2023 at 12:45 AM, dxpavelka said:

Could be worse.  Most of the writers on here spent the whole fall pleading for us to sign Omar Narvaez.

To be fair, Narvaez and his more modest deal would have meant the Twins likely turned to Jeffers sooner. Even without a Narvaez injury.

[TwinsDr2021]

On 6/3/2023 at 2:21 PM, gman said:

always expected Jeffers to be a good hitting catcher and a better defensive catcher than given credit for. I wouldn't be too surprised to see him make the allstar team in the next couple of years. Though not this year.

I hope so, he was up at 23 and that is fairly young for a catcher, he will probably competing with Perez, Rutschman, Heim, and Raleigh the next years.