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 Post subject: Contreras, Ross, Montero
PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 6:35 pm 
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Who actually thought carrying 3 catchers into the playoffs was a good idea?

Not only did they contribute substantially at different times, in Game 7 each played behind the plate and each had a huge, clutch RBI.

I'm going out on a limb to guess that's never happened in a playoff game...much less a WS Game 7.

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Who actually thought carrying 3 catchers into the playoffs was a good idea?

Not only did they contribute substantially at different times, in Game 7 each played behind the plate and each had a huge, clutch RBI.

I'm going out on a limb to guess that's never happened in a playoff game...much less a WS Game 7.

Any chance they keep Miggy around to catch Jake and Lester next year until Contreras is ready full time?

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Who actually thought carrying 3 catchers into the playoffs was a good idea?

Earl Weaver. It's one of the things I read when I was a little kid, he had written a chapter for a coffee table book called "This Great Game" published around 1973-ish. He was adamant that a third catcher was a necessity which most teams were ignoring, although he was working with 10 man pitching staffs and four starters.

A surprising amount of The Cubs Way is Weaver-esque. Not all of it, but a lot of it.

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Back in the late 80s/early 90s when my fantasy baseball league first started there was a dearth of good catchers, kind of like there is right now. Once in awhile a team would use a catcher at DH and a joke developed about the "dreaded two catcher offense". When I congratulated the guy who was my long time partner in this league and who is a big Cub fan on the win this morning, he immediately mentioned the Cubs using the "dreaded three catcher offense."

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Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
GoldenJet wrote:
Who actually thought carrying 3 catchers into the playoffs was a good idea?

Earl Weaver. It's one of the things I read when I was a little kid, he had written a chapter for a coffee table book called "This Great Game" published around 1973-ish. He was adamant that a third catcher was a necessity which most teams were ignoring, although he was working with 10 man pitching staffs and four starters.

A surprising amount of The Cubs Way is Weaver-esque. Not all of it, but a lot of it.



I don't remember the good Orioles teams in the early 70s carrying three, Just Andy Etchabarren and Ellie Hendricks. Although I vaguely remember a guy named Dalrymple? catching a few games for them. I don't think he was on the roster for the whole season, but maybe he was.

The great Yankees teams of the 50s had a guy named Charlie Silvera who won about eight World Series and hardly ever played because the Yankees had Yogi and Elston Howard.

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I don't remember the good Orioles teams in the early 70s carrying three, Just Andy Etchabarren and Ellie Hendricks. Although I vaguely remember a guy named Dalrymple? catching a few games for them. I don't think he was on the roster for the whole season, but maybe he was.
Yep, that's the guy, Clay Darymple. Barely caught, probably got optioned/DLed a bit when needed. The book was before the Lowenstein/Crowley platoon teams, it was focused more on the late 60s and the WS teams.

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Sounds like Montero is mad at Joe.

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Cubs catcher Miguel Montero, who had only 12 at-bats in the team’s postseason run, voiced his frustrations with the team over his lack of playing time after their magical World Series win.

Waddle and Silvy Show on ESPN 1000

“It was different for me,” “It was a different emotion because I didn’t get a chance to play. I was a little disappointed, to be honest, because I felt like I did a good job in the regular season but was left out a little bit. It made me feel a little like not important or maybe not as good to be in this lineup.”

“I think the toughest part for me is they never communicated with me,” “I’m a veteran guy. They talk about veteran leadership. I have 11 years in the game and two All-Star [appearances]. I expected to be treated a little better. I was expected to get communication.

“Just let me know. Put me in the loop. That was the toughest part for me because I never understood what my role was going to be.”

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FavreFan wrote:
Sounds like Montero is mad at Joe.

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Cubs catcher Miguel Montero, who had only 12 at-bats in the team’s postseason run, voiced his frustrations with the team over his lack of playing time after their magical World Series win.

Waddle and Silvy Show on ESPN 1000

“It was different for me,” “It was a different emotion because I didn’t get a chance to play. I was a little disappointed, to be honest, because I felt like I did a good job in the regular season but was left out a little bit. It made me feel a little like not important or maybe not as good to be in this lineup.”

“I think the toughest part for me is they never communicated with me,” “I’m a veteran guy. They talk about veteran leadership. I have 11 years in the game and two All-Star [appearances]. I expected to be treated a little better. I was expected to get communication.

“Just let me know. Put me in the loop. That was the toughest part for me because I never understood what my role was going to be.”


You always do this to me.

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Sounds like Montero is mad at Joe.

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Cubs catcher Miguel Montero, who had only 12 at-bats in the team’s postseason run, voiced his frustrations with the team over his lack of playing time after their magical World Series win.

Waddle and Silvy Show on ESPN 1000

“It was different for me,” “It was a different emotion because I didn’t get a chance to play. I was a little disappointed, to be honest, because I felt like I did a good job in the regular season but was left out a little bit. It made me feel a little like not important or maybe not as good to be in this lineup.”

“I think the toughest part for me is they never communicated with me,” “I’m a veteran guy. They talk about veteran leadership. I have 11 years in the game and two All-Star [appearances]. I expected to be treated a little better. I was expected to get communication.

“Just let me know. Put me in the loop. That was the toughest part for me because I never understood what my role was going to be.”

Was on the field for the last inning of the WS clincher and got the GWRBI. And you weren't as good to be in the lineup regularly . Thanks for the contributions but it doesn't change you were awful most of the year. That is what affected your playing time. Be better.

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