Reds making push for Realmuto

[kevin]

(02-03-2019, 01:02 PM)psychdoctor Wrote: Gloved placement includes framing and helps pitchers gain strikes.  The reds are not going to trade Trammell or senzel.  They would have traded one of those for kluber.

Barnhart could have had a glove the size of a barn and Reds awful pitching would have still been awful.  Reds have brought in pitching and pitching coach and Barnhart is a good Gold Glove catcher.  I really hope Reds don't waste time or trade good players on this.  Bell will find out Barnhart is a very good catcher. Reds have too many other areas to improve on to get out of last place. Gold Glove Barnhart is not a problem area.  Sometimes the trades you don't make are the best ones, and this is a trade Reds could regret very fast and for a long time. To trade a good catcher for another catcher but throw top prospects in also, that's just a bad deal. If Realmuto was like Johnny Bench or Carlton Fisk, sure, but he isn't.