Most of the ones I've seen have him at .260 .310 .525 or so....  John Buck 2010.

But that's not a bad player if that's his average for 10 years... and the Jays get on base percentage from other positions.

This is just my opinion but trying to predict what a player will do in the Majors just by numbers is pretty useless. I look forward to just watching him play for a couple weeks (maybe more). Even if he is only as good as John Buck has been this year, I think thats good enough to be a catcher on a championship team.

breaking my own rule about sample size and the like - but this year has swung me back around to the idea that if d'Arnaud wants to be the catcher of the future (instead of JPA) he's the one who's going to have to gird up his loins and prove himself better, not the other way round.

However - that's a tentative position given that we are aware d'Arnaud had a back injury and those are notorious for lingering effects. Because of that i have to give him a partial mulligan, at least, on 2010. Still, i think JPA has staked his claim and unless he flounders for 2-3 years tryingto adjust to the bigs, it's his job to lose.

(in the long long long range view, I begin to wonder if our third baseman on the CToF will actually be one of the guys currently playing at catcher?)

breaking my own rule about sample size and the like - but this year has swung me back around to the idea that if d'Arnaud wants to be the catcher of the future (instead of JPA) he's the one who's going to have to gird up his loins and prove himself better, not the other way round.

JPA has pretty clearly moved past D'Arnaud on the COTF list, and Perez and Jiminez might feel slighted by being listed behind D'Arnaud as well.

I think we were all excited to get those 3 nice prospects from Philly back for Halladay....but it's funny that these 3 top-100 prospects have come over to what was apparently one of the worst systems in baseball, and been outplayed by quite a few of our crappy prospects from our crappy system.