April 30, 2008
Moeller Returns
Chad Moeller cleared waivers and is back with the Yankees. Peter Abraham sums up the team's catching situation well:
How has it come to this for the Yankees? People are thrilled Chad Moeller is back. This is a guy who was cut in spring training by the Nationals because they liked Wil Nieves better. A team with a $209 million payroll praying that nobody claims Chad Moeller. Amazing.
The reason Posada got a 4 year deal was that there were no catching prospects in the Yankees farm system. They were going with Molina as the back up, Moeller as 3rd string. I don't see a lot of depth anywhere at catcher.
But he can't catch now - how is he going to catch in 3 yrs? NYY made some bad moves in offseason and that was 1 of them. Now Hughes is on DL - who is going to replace him in the rotation? Hard to believe you can have a $209M payroll and have no spot starter and have to comb the waiver wire for a catcher.