Rodolfo Duran

The offense is not there.

You're going to probably need three catchers, because if not, you're going to have Rodolfo Duran pitching for you again at some point next season.

So you're continuing status quo with three of these guys coming

back.

There had been some $2 million ranges that I'd seen for mean at the 2.6, I think would be way overpriced for what we need.

Rodolfo Duran, Ethan Salas, both pre-arbitration, that is becoming something that I like more and more.

Or a campy Duran and Salas combination to start the season is becoming more and more of my concept of team-friendly interest in the contract, catcher-wise.

Infielders, some of these are just where we're at and with limited to no discussion or debate you know Xander still in the mix for six more years of that contract Jake still in the mix for four more years of that contract Manny on that six-year tie France the one that stands out there we need to get that deal done more than anybody else available to talk about in this infield Mason McCoy pre-arbitration kind of had forgotten about his overall availability.

We'll go into the offseason that way and figure out when we get into the year how that sort of turns out.

uh plays out in terms of playing time and all of that but it's setting up as a healthy competition for everybody honestly now in this article kevin acey broke down the numbers in a way that i thought was kind of interesting to look at and actually discuss catching wise of that um for me and cape usano both arbitration eligible are looking at significant upticks 2.6 for for mean and campy at 1.7 so both of those together cumulatively representing just over four million dollars worth of salary now this is not like i said we're not clear on oh uh there's gonna be a hard cap at 203.587 million dollars or something random like that i'm just pulling a number out of the air but this did kind of put me in an interesting mindset of later in the article goes on to talk about Rodolfo Duran.

And I had not thought about if the Padres are going to be uninhibited by money and spin, spin, spin, spin, and yadda yadda, like there's no cap because the Brewers say baseball and whatnot.

then I don't think that penny-pinching over $4 million is all that necessary.

But if the Padres are going to be hampered by some degree of that, or are just going to be looking at needing to shell out $30 million a year for Michael King, and $10 million or $18 million for Pavetta and making a $90 million total contract on Moray Hone and looking at going in on Scooball or Sandy Alcantara or something other big and big and big and have to pay for Ty France and have pay increases coming for Manny and Nando and Bogarts, respectively, who are like, that's already on the books, like we can't wiggle room or renegotiate around that.

It did make me wonder.

Is there a possibility of going Ethan Salas and Rodolfo Duran next year, just out of doing the bare minimum basement bargain contract? And what does that look like to you guys in terms of, I think that also clears the deck.

competition wise as much as preller wants to say oh it's a healthy competition and all that ethan salas is the anointed catcher of the future and campy is a great story and i think we all like camping don't want to see campy gone and for me i think none of us are like needing to die on that hill so it's not like there's a dynamic one-two choice of as much as i think any of us like campy i don't think campy is I think Campy's a kind of half, like one foot in as a starting catcher, one foot in as a backup catcher and could be another team's starting catcher.

I don't know, I feel like Freddie Fermin wasn't great at throwing out people this year, but, you know, I guess he was.

I mean, you have, uh, uh, well, Rodolfo Duran with his absolute cannon, but he didn't play that much.

Luis Compasano had some pretty clutch outs, but, I mean, you can't argue Freddie Fermin.

While his bat is not the best, he's a v- he's a very good defender, right? So his well-rounded defensive excellence this past season is what got him that nod, and I can take you, I can give you a nice little look at that.

But Walker Buehler did start that game and gave up the most runs in that game.

Rodolfo Duran was second with eight runs allowed.

Rodolfo Duran, who pitched

twice.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

And that's Luis Camposano.

And now he had a couple of games where he threw to Rodolfo Duran, but he is essentially thrown only to Luis Camposano.