Then let’s say the Twins deal him before the deadline, to try & get some kind of return out of the deal.

Do you think the Twins would deal him for Montero + whoever’s not named Hughes/Joba/AJax?

They won’t be able to get the king’s ransom that Mauer’s worth for just a half season of him, and Montero’s got the potential to at least be about 60-70% of Mauer, if he can stick behind the plate of course.

We do have the catching depth, we could have Romine spell Mauer, and the Twins would get as good a replacement candidate as possible. The Sox don’t have any C prospects like Montero, do they?

I don’t know if this is such a pipe-dream. I mean, having both Jesus & Mauer is probably too far-fetched, because the Twins are going to deal him if he doesn’t sign. Although he won’t necessarily sign with whatever team trades for him, there’s the distinct possibility that he does. Especially if the trade partner is the Yankees.

His agent would be doing him a disservice. And the PA would crucify him for screwing with the market and hurting other players.

In fact, here is a passage from the orginal Blog entry….

“For the Yankees, the timing couldn’t be better. Jorge Posada is playing out the waning days of a potential Hall of Fame career behind the plate, but the growing sentiment is that he is not either physically capable or good enough to catch more than 100 games.”

Do you not see that THIS is what prompted my response?

“He IS not capable or good enough”… NOT “he won’t be capable or good enough in 2012″.

Context…

“All true and valid points, but points that do not change the fact that Jorge is not the long-term answer at catcher.”

But once again, I made a general remark about the GROWING sentiment about the immediate decline of Posada, which if you scroll up and see the discussion with the poster who is convinced that Posada doesn’t even try to block pitches in the dirt anymore and that his play in the post-season which resulted in a 8-2 record was “unacceptable” you’ll understand to whom and to what I was referring to.

I also clearly point out that of course the Yankees need to explore options for 2011. Cherry pick much?

“None of that has anything to do with being interested in Joe Mauer”

And neither does the comment you’re determined to fabricate a debate out of.

Read the post again, AFTER addressing Mauer specifically, the Posada comment begins “Generally” which is a fairly clear indication I’m no longer discussing Posada in the context of whether IS Mauer a better choice.

Is your head so far up your ass you honestly think I’m suggesting Posada is a better option than Mauer, this year, next year or the year after?

My comments on Posada has NOTHING to do with interest in Joe Mauer. One isn’t mutually exclusive to another.

It was a “general” comment about the “growing sentiment” that Posada is incapable of playing the position for parts of the next couple of years, which again if you’ll scroll up you’ll see was entirely relevant.

You’re trying WAY too hard.

But didn’t he start in 10 games in the post-season, and the Yankees went 8-2 in those games?

Wasn’t Pettitte and Sabathia more effective than Burnett?

Didn’t the Yankees win 103 regular season games.

BY what metric are we concluding he CAN’T catch anymore? His team seems to have significant success while he’s on the field, no?

For all the talk about what he’s gonna cost, remember how much the best player in the AL and local boy brings in for the Twins.

… what happened? I blacked out. Did we win?