Can Naps not catch at all anymore?

[Erstad Grit]

All I hear is Ortiz will start 1b which means Napoli will on the bench. Are his knees that shot to where he cannot catch the World Series? 

[jshep]

Well, at this point my guess would be that it's a combination of the hip condition and such, which has limited him strictly to 1B/DH this year.

 

And even if he is physically capable of catching every once in a while, I'm not sure you would want to throw him back there for the first time all season in the World Series.

[Homebrewer]

Let's ask Scioscia!

[tdawg87]

Napoli can't even squat a full game. I wonder if he has to stand up to shit after a long day of diarrhea.

[Scott34]

Anymore?

[JAHV76]

I guess he is a part time player

[CardsFanVegas]

His beard won't fit behind the catchers mask

[ukyah]

that degenerative hip condition is no joke. his career is on borrowed time, and that's sad.

[FireThemAll]

Napoli hit well this year, and played very good defense at 1B under the radar. Where are you getting that Napoli's career is on "borrowed time"?

 

Not being an effective option behind the plate =/= his career is over. His bat will play at DH and 1B...just ask the Red Sox

Edited October 26, 2013 by FireThemAll

[KingJustinian]

Napoli hit well this year, and played very good defense at 1B under the radar. Where are you getting that Napoli's career is on "borrowed time"?

Not being an effective option behind the plate =/= his career is over. His bat will play at DH and 1B...just ask the Red Sox

It won't play when there's no DH and a 37 year old star hitter in the most important series of the year

Edited October 26, 2013 by KingJustinian

[ukyah]

he has a degenerative hip. he's losing bone mass. there are more medical options available to him today than there were for bo jackson, but he has the same thing bo has. his career is on borrowed time and i don't mean that as a slight against him.

 

if you need more proof, i offer the red sox voiding his multi year free agent deal and instead offering him a one year incentive deal.

 

i wish him a long and successful career.

[CaliAngel]

Too bad he doesn't practice at 3rd or I'd consider replacing him for that Bogaerts bum in a jiffy just to get his bat in the lineup.

[disarcina]

yeah, according to Scioscia, Naps never could catch.......

 

 

would you catch Napoli against a Cardinals team that would steal a base every time they got a guy on?

[YouthofToday]

Scioscia's opinion in anything Napoli related has as much credibility as anybody here talking about interstellar space travel.

[Mark68]

Scioscia's opinion in anything Napoli related has as much credibility as anybody here talking about interstellar space travel.

Well, I do have to say that interstellar travel will never happen until we invent a faster-than-light engine. A warp drive, if you will.

 

Where's Zevram Cochran?

[stormngt]

I believe the biggest blunder by the Halos regarding Napoli was not seeing the value with him as  a DH and 1b.  (yes I know he played those positions but they did not have confidence long haul with him there.)  I can accept the decision that Mathis was a better catcher defensively.  What blows my mind was why did they believe that Bobby Abreu would be better at DH?

[Blarg]

Scioscia's opinion in anything Napoli related has as much credibility as anybody here talking about interstellar space travel.

 

And yet he averaged fewer games as a Ranger catcher than an Angel and a total of zero games in a Red Sox uniform.

Edited October 28, 2013 by Eric Notti

[CaliAngel]

 What blows my mind was why did they believe that Bobby Abreu would be better at DH?

 

I honestly don't think they did. But they were stuck with him.

 

Goddamn just thinking back to Abreu on our team hurts my head.

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

Napoli hit well this year, and played very good defense at 1B under the radar. Where are you getting that Napoli's career is on "borrowed time"?

 

Not being an effective option behind the plate =/= his career is over. His bat will play at DH and 1B...just ask the Red Sox

Did you make this video? Lol

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLpVdh5Ojkw

[yk9001]

Six month ban for anybody posting these sit-in-front-of-your-computer rants.

[Adam]

Napoli has had a solid couple of games in StL

[Lou]

If Boston wins the WS he's only getting a half-share of the WS money

[Lou]

I guess he is a part time player

 

 

2nd-string 1B & 3rd-string catcher

[Adam]

4th option to pinch hit off the bench. 

[Lou]

exactly

 

 

lol @ letting a pitcher hit for the 1st time in his career over Naps