Tampa Bay Rays Claim Catcher Jose Lobaton Off Waivers; Move Troy Percival to 60-Day Disabled List
A 24-year-old catcher formerly of the San Diego Padres system. Lobaton will be placed on the 40-man roster, apparently he'll head to Montgomery.
Lobaton did little to inspire in his short major league stint but that shouldn't worry you in the least. He's a switch hitter who spent his entire career in the Padres organization. Finally reaching Triple-A this year he hit .241/.292/.353 in a little under 150 plate appearances. The previous season he hit .259/.338/.422 in Double-A and in 502 High-A plate appearances hit .246/.341/.411. He walks, strikes out, and shows a little pop. B-Ref has his caught stealing rates at 27% and 25% over the last two seasons and Baseball America named him the best defensive catcher in the Padres system two years running.
No idea what, if anything, this means for any of the Rays higher level catchers. Shawn Riggans and John Jaso are currently in Durham and of course Dioner Navarro and Michel Hernandez man the fort in St. Petersburg. Could be simply for depth, could be foreshadowing something else. We'll see.
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we are stacked with shitty catchers that is for sure
we must be the new training site for the future bullpen catchers of America.
Seems good
He’s a switch hitting catcher, he was ranked the top Padres defensive catcher by BaseballAmerica.com, what more do you want? :P
Why am I always so excited?
I am so dumb.
2010 starters
C Non on active roster 1B Carlos Pena 2B Ben Zobrist SS Jason Bartlett/Reid Brignac 3B Evan Longoria LF Carl Crawford CF B.J Upton RF Matt Joyce DH Pat Burrell
Doesn't this show
That the Rays have no foreseeable direction with C at the current time? We’ll hopefully find one somewhere, it’s no fun having the worst C and the worst DH in baseball
I would sell my mother
For V-Mart, and think very hard about it for Napoli.
Woooo
This means we’re getting Martinez and DFAing Hernandez, duh.
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by Tommy Rancel on Jul 31, 2009 7:25 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

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