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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.

by Dbullsfan on Jul 30, 2009 11:45 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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

by raysman1 on Jul 31, 2009 12:02 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I like Lobaton.

If only because he all but guaranteed Percival is done here.

by R.J. Anderson on Jul 30, 2009 11:59 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Yeah, Woo

PERCIVAL IS CLEANING OUT HIS LOCKER!!!

Come ON Pat the Bust, Navi can not have more homers than you

by Some other guy who does not care on Jul 31, 2009 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Lobaton is Venezuelan, Navarro is Venezuelan

And so is Victor Martinez. Coincidence? Yes

by GvilleRay on Jul 31, 2009 12:01 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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

by joeybw on Jul 31, 2009 12:06 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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

by Transplanted on Jul 31, 2009 12:14 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I would sell my mother

For V-Mart, and think very hard about it for Napoli.

by J.P.'s my boy on Jul 31, 2009 3:06 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Woooo

This means we’re getting Martinez and DFAing Hernandez, duh.

www.draysbay.com

by Tommy Rancel on Jul 31, 2009 7:25 AM EDT via mobile reply actions   0 recs

One reason I hope

the Rays sign Luke Bailey.

by bobr on Jul 31, 2009 9:52 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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