Who Will Win the Postseason Playing Time Battle at Catcher for the Twins?

Wow tough question.  First with the way the Twins are playing it is very possible they won't make the playoffs making the catching question irrelevant.  Plus Rocco will probably have them both scheduled for a day off for the first playoff game lol. I like Jeffers but I sure wish he played better defense.  He has trouble with passed balls and not blocking bad pitches.  The Twins as a whole give up way too many stolen bases.

We have to GET to the playoffs first. 

1 hour ago, chpettit19 said:

They'll start Vazquez game 1, Jeffers game 2, and then repeat until they're out of games to play.

This would be my decision. The rotation should continue but I expect it to be Jeffers followed by Vazquez.

This is a poll type question.

Isn't this more like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?

I disagreed with the Twins' decision to go with Jeffers over Vazquez. In my book catching defense trumps offense (this isn't 1B) plus World Series Championship experience trumps everything.

He stayed with Boston into the 2022 season, highlighted by being part of the 2018 World Series championship team. Vázquez was traded to the Astros during the 2022 season, and helped Houston win the World Series later that year. He caught the Astros' combined no-hitter in Game 4 of the World Series.

Players react differently to the postseason. One gets up, the other freezes. With Vazquez's superiority in defense and his leadership from postseason triumphs, he couldn't do much worse than Jeffers regarding his offense. Going with Jeffers in the postseason over Vazquez IMO was a slap in the face. 

Going into this postseason I'd go with both but lead-off with Vazquez.

4 hours ago, Karbo said:

Until the league adopts a robo-ump Vasky is by far a better defensive player. Jeffers is bad at framing, and lately teams are running at will against him. As a sidenote, next spring the coaches really need to work more with the pitchers to hold runners better.

Actually the numbers say they are pretty equal in getting run on-Vasqy has thrown out 9 of 53 runners-17%, Jeffers has thrown out 8 of 55 runners-15%.  The pitchers need to hold runners on, but the organizational philosophy is that stolen bases are not important in the analytics world so they don't emphasize holding runners on or to steal bases on offense.  So the criticism of Jeffers I think is not completely fair.

Jeffers is in that camp I don't like much...that is HR or strikeout. The K's are very damaging.

Vazquez is probably better defensively and he can hit a bit. My guess like many here says Rocco platoons them. Twins are no lock to make post season...unless they wake up pretty soon

1 hour ago, karcherd said:

The pitchers need to hold runners on

Correct, Twins pitchers allow baserunners to get HUGE jumps.

This article is about a month too early.

8 hours ago, Craig Arko said:

This may be even below the least of my concerns with this team.

You beat me to it.  The Twins catchers is basically top 3 in baseball this year offensively (among teams catching positions).  Why would they do anything different then what they have been doing? 

IF he Twins get to the Postseason, Vazquez will see the most time behind he plate.

Jeffers!!

Vasquez has far too many "Half-Swings" & weak roll overs on breaking balls. Automatic outs. He needs to at least have a full swing in case he hits it!