He's valued between 4-5M p

He's valued as a career back bencher with a career high contract base of 1.7M and he's an old man. It's important to retain fluidity on the active roster and not blow budget space that by overpayind the market.

Now that the move has been made, though, there is no valid reason to do anything but put this old guy's defesnive package as the primary catcher until he breaks down, and unload Salty and his arbitration costs.

Frankly, if he doesn't uload Salty than he's more incomeptent than I thought was humanly possible.

What training does this guy have in markets?

Varitek was an expensive mentor that didn't work out at all. It's not necessary to pay 6 million dollars to find a catcher mentor. Rick Dempsey will do that for less, and so will Varitek. The market for catcher mentors isn't 6 million.

Varitek was an expensive mentor that didn't work out at all. It's not necessary to pay 6 million dollars to find a catcher mentor. Rick Dempsey will do that for less, and so will Varitek. The market for catcher mentors isn't 6 million.

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In response to southpaw777's comment:

Salty should/will go......  The timing is right to get some value for those 25 HR's.......  Heck, he is not a good defensive catcher !!

Catchers have high value these days, and we have so many high need areas

And one of them is catcher, you blathering bilger.

This move was incompetent, which will require Salty and his arbitration costs to be trade out of town ASAP. Ross will need to be the primary catcher. I expect the incopetent Cherry to pay arbitration costs for Salty. Since there's no turning back on 6 million for Ross, who now has the trade value of a used Obamamoters Chevy Volt, Ross needs to be the primary catcher to the old man breaks down like Varitek did, two years before they forced him out of MLB.

I love watching Softy lose it. 3 mill bucks for the best back up catcher in baseball is a pretty good deal. I would hate to dump Salty's nearly 500 SLG for Lavarnway who we just don't know about.

Now that we have a RH back-up, good glove, veteran catcher, how do we see this playing out.  I feel like the fact Salty is a switch hitter who we now know is capable of hitting 25 HR, he has to stay.  As painful as it was to watch him strike out at an alarming rate in long stretches last year, he isn't a terrible hitter when he isn't trying to hit it 600 feet.  There were times when his back wasn't quite healed where he actually looked better because he was trying to go the other way.  In addition, it seemed like he was more patient and starting to draw some walks toward the end of the season.  In addition, Lavarnway may be coveted by some team out there the way Montero was when Seattle gave up a great young for him.  If it means getting  Major league ready player in return that can help us this year and going forward, I'd explore trading him.  Swihart may be only 2 years away. Thoughts?

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In response to BosoxJoe5's comment:

Check out Salty's clutch stats and get back to me. 25 HRs but only 59 RBIs? That is pitiful!.

Did you bother to watch the games this year? While it might not be saying much, since our whole team was weak "when it counted", Salty was one of our best clutch hitters this year.

Late & Close OPS (over 45 PAs):

1) 94 Pedey .786

2) 88 Ross   .768

3) 78 Salty  .725

4) 80 AGon .702

5) 51 Ortiz  .682

6) 47 Midd  .629

7) 98 Aviles .604

8) 52 Ellsb  .544

9) 52 Nava .479

RBIs in Late & Close:

1) Ross  15/88 PAs

2) Midd  10/47

3) Salty  10/78

4) AGon 10/80

5) Pedey 9/94

If you project Salty's Late & Close numbers to 640 PAs, his numbers would be:

HR  32

RBI 80

That's not bad for a .214 BA in these situations.

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In response to moonslav59's comment:

Ike's already made up his mind, based on nothing.

Salty should/will go......  The timing is right to get some value for those 25 HR's.......  Heck, he is not a good defensive catcher !!