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Not a chance. Hitting is pretty much equal, but Martinez is nowhere near the better player behind the plate calling the game.

sorry about declining it I just looked at his stats and I knew he was doing good but I didnt think he was doing that good until now

The name I first thought of is Russell Martin....

not even close. posada's longest hitless streak this year is 9 at bats, tops in the majors. his produciton each month has been as follows:
3 hr, 15 rbi in each month from april to july and is on pace to do better in august. he also has been over 300 in each month. his consistency is unmatched, his reliability is unmatched and he means way more to his team than martinez

umm your both wrong, its russel martin. hes got practically the same numbers as posada except for average (martins is hovering around 300) but martin also has 18 steals and isnt protected by a fantastic offense around him and Martin is younger than both of em at just 23.

What does AGE have to do with a discussion about THIS YEAR?

not even close. posada's longest hitless streak this year is 9 at bats, tops in the majors.

umm yeah aaron miles went 7-7 at one point, getting nine hits in a row is more a string of good fortune..... are you saying that Jorge Posada is the best player in the league simply because he had a string of good fortune?

John, its because it does, it just does.

hit-LESS streak.

He's never gone more than 9 at-bats without a hit.

Actually, Martin has on 12 HRs, and only 68 RBIs. Posada leads him in every category except for stolen bases. Not much use if you don't score after the steal though. I'll still take Posada. Martin also has 10 errors to Posada's 4.

Birds....no it doesn't...it just doesn't.

Also, Martin plays superior defence to Posada.

Posada is having a consistently great year at the plate. He has always been ++ behind the plate. His only deficiency is he can be a bonehead on the basepaths.

look at the lineup around Martin, Jeff Kent isnt exaclty someone to be feared anymore so of course Posada has more runs and RBI than Martin

Posada, no doubt. Not bad for an old fart.

Posada only has two more homers and runs too, and Martin has more RBI so you shouldnt lie to win your arguement

birds on the bat, can you read i said hitLESS at bats. thats one of the coolest stats ive heard all year. never worse than 0-9 in a streak.

hey man hook-ed on phoneics is a workin fo me!

now that is pretty cool though, ill give you that but im still stickin with martin

Yeah i realized the age thing was stupid

i also didnt have room to write these few things that everyone shud consider...
posada this season spent most of the months of april-june catching rookie, minor league pitchers (chase wright, tyler clippard, matt de salvo, jeff karstens, darrel rasner)-- martinez has been catching 2 of the top AL pitchers so far this season in sabathia and carmona...
also badgerfan writes above that "martinez has 26 more at bats than posada"-- let me just say that he failed to consider that walks do not count as at bats and jorge has 52 walks to martinez's 43 walks; another tribute to Posada's patience and talent at the plate. Overall, Posada is more reliable behind the plate, much stronger at the plate, and a huge asset to any ballclub/pitching staff.