By Scott Jensen
I think someone in the Indians’ organization is screwing with me. There can be no other explanation. I woke this morning to find that, on the heel s of signing space-wasters Jason Tyner then Jorge Velandia and Todd Linden, mighty Mark Shapiro has signed ultimate journeyman catcher Sal Fasano.
I had vowed to write some more positive articles, for fear of earning the label of Mr. Negativity. But I’m forced to stay on the Dark Side when Cleveland makes stupid moves like these. So here goes: Cleveland continues to show they can’t develop their own players. Something is broken.
It’s not that the trade for Sal Fasano is a bad one. After all, the Indians have a need for catching help now that Victor Martinez is out for an extended period.
The problem is that the Indians apparently feel they don’t already have someone in their minor league system capable of producing Fasano-like results, which offensively is something around .219/.293/.394 in 120 or so at bats over the season.
How can this be? How can the Indians not have one prospect developed enough to play two games a week for the next six weeks – or not have a veteran insurance catcher at AAA. That is, after all, what AAA is for, at least for contending teams.
Not having internal catching depth is like your local Starbucks having just one person trained on ordering coffee. It’s a pretty important function, so you need to have redundancy within your organization. I guess the Indians didn’t get that memo.
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