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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Feb 3, 2020 20:45:05 GMT -8
Andrew Susac has signed with the Pirates. He played for triple-A Omaha in the Kansas City organization in 2019.
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Post by ricke71 on Feb 4, 2020 9:03:01 GMT -8
Injuries have derailed a promising career (early on High Prospect status). Only played 26 games last season, all AAA. Decent OPS at .808. Played in 51 games the season before. Pirates are sorta the Mariners of the NL.
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Post by mbabeav on Feb 4, 2020 14:37:08 GMT -8
Injuries have derailed a promising career (early on High Prospect status). Only played 26 games last season, all AAA. Decent OPS at .808. Played in 51 games the season before. Pirates are sorta the Mariners of the NL. Perhaps injuries were a factor, but the big factor was getting kinda stuck in the lineup behind Buster Posey - hard to get around him  |
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Post by ricke71 on Feb 4, 2020 17:04:38 GMT -8
Injuries have derailed a promising career (early on High Prospect status). Only played 26 games last season, all AAA. Decent OPS at .808. Played in 51 games the season before. Pirates are sorta the Mariners of the NL. Perhaps injuries were a factor, but the big factor was getting kinda stuck in the lineup behind Buster Posey - hard to get around him Posey indeed was a factor at the time he arrived in MLB (2014) - but one of the key positions on any MLB team is backup catcher. Susac was unable to 'stick' as a Giants backup catcher. 2015 was the last year that he saw MLB action as a Giant. He was in 52 games in MLB that season, with the Giants, and had a BA of .218 / OPS .665. That doesn't keep you in the category of highly valued backup catcher. Then the trade 'action' began (Milwaukee organization, then Baltimore organization, and now Pittsburg). Games played (for various minor league / major league teams): 2016 - 78 games 2017 - 61 games 2018 - 51 games 2019 - 26 games. The lack of games played over the past 4 years is not Buster Posey related. |
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Post by sagebrush on Feb 5, 2020 22:01:41 GMT -8
Fragile or just down on the depth chart?
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Post by ricke71 on Feb 6, 2020 6:44:02 GMT -8
Fragile or just down on the depth chart? Good question. He spent the large majority of all of 4 of those seasons at AAA. In 2019 he was on injured list for nearly 4 months, I think. Hopefully the Pirates (who have been my 'favorite' team since about 1959) will be a good fit for him. They are indeed 'catcher thin'. Their depth chart at catcher, which includes only 2 catchers on the 40 man roster, and a total of 3 (on the depth chart) counting a non-roster invitee (not Susac), does not have a single established major league starting catcher. Instead it's players who in most organizations would be battling for backup catcher, or AAA. Competition for a MLB roster spot at Catcher on the Pirates could be fierce. In January alone they invited 4 non-roster catchers to MLB spring training. It has been pointed out that an abundance of catchers is needed in Feb/Mar in order to accommodate the large number of pitchers in camp. |
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