Comments on: Pirates Sign Rod Barajas For $4 M

By: Bob Martin

Bob Martin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:25:00 +0000

Welcome to the Lyle Overbay signing of 2012..Neal is Dumpster Diving mighty early this year. He was dumb enough to give Lyle 5M, atleast he only gave another washed up player 4m this time. Maybe next year it will be 3 and by 2016 we won’t need to give away money like this. Hopefully Nutting will be gone too but my dreams never come true so he will still sign off on crap signings like these.

By: Vince Riedy

Vince Riedy — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:27:00 +0000

Solid signing. This allows the catching prospects to develop and the major league pitchers pitch to a real catcher. The option year is a bargain for a quality backup catcher if any of the prospects are ready in 2013.

By: Jack Mcelligott

Jack Mcelligott — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:00:00 +0000

Solid sign. We need a veteran catcher to work with the pitchers and our young catchers. Though I dont blame Doumit pitchers plummeting this past season I think there was a noticeable dropoff with Doumit behind the plate as to defense and perhaps more importantly with pitch selection. We got a solid if not spectacular foursome of catchers now excluding Sanchez.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:46:00 +0000

Would rather have had Hernandez, but Barajas was a good get for the Bucs, veterans are important and this one will be a far better asset than Doumit was and no where near the risk Snyder would have been with his back problem, not to mention they saved a lot of money, they would have had over 20 mil in two catchers if they would have continued with Doumit and Snyder as they had last year.
Catching problem solved, would like to see them lock up Barmes if they can’t resign Cedano.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:32:00 +0000

I would have rather used the money on someone else. Ramon Hernandez would have been a better option at catcher.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:27:00 +0000

I would have rather used the money on someone else. Ramon Hernandez would have been a better option at catcher.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:24:00 +0000

Solid addition in a position that has anything but solid for the Pirates in ages.

By: Jimmy Coverdale

Jimmy Coverdale — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:22:00 +0000

Huntington has proved that he’s learned nothing from what happened with Overbay. I would have taken Barajas as the starting catcher – but not for $4m. He should have offered Doumit arb first and waited to see what happened there – now he won’t take the risk and won’t get a draft pick

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:14:00 +0000

Not bad, if we can get Barmes and Lee/Pena we should be an okay.

By: JustinG

JustinG — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:13:00 +0000

I’ll take Barajas at 4 million to Doumit’s 7 or whatever it was. On to Barmes!