Endy Rodríguez

Just looking back at the history and thinking about...

But yeah... really haven't been a whole lot of like top shelf offensive catchers here in pittsburgh at least not those that hit a lot of home runs right what's really remarkable to me is i think that flores has done most of this growth really in the last month defensively the pirates being forced to give him an opportunity because of the injuries to endy rodriguez is kind of key number one to why we're seeing this now but to henry continuing to have an underwhelming bat has left the door cracked open for rafael flores to to get some opportunity here and this is an advanced age prospect you know i It can take longer for catchers to develop, and that's okay.

But he's to the age now where it's poop or get off the pot time.

And I think it's time for him to really get a look.

You may see him... promoted to indianapolis to participate with them even you know if one of them doesn't make it and the other does i i i think it's a stretch to believe that he'll be playing third base next year for the pirates at least at the start could he get a cup of coffee late or a second half edition yes i think that's probably the healthy territory to be seeing murph grant Number two, are the Pirates going to have to go outside the organization for the catcher spot in 2027? I get a ton of questions about the catching spot.

And most of them have had to do with Endy Rodriguez for very obvious reasons.

They aren't right now.

Endy won't be a factor next year.

But I think one person I'm looking at more honed into, I'm going to the other side then instead of defense.

We just hear the news of Indy, which sucks.

It sucks.

I mean, Indy is having such a tough time staying on the field.

I don't know.

I don't know what his future is.

Like you, that's good for his development.

You want to see him get more run, major league pitching.