Lol, Salty sucks. Not only is he a terrible hitter who strikes out way to much, he does not know how to call a game. All the pitchers Era’s are much higher with Salty catching.   Poor D, Bad Bat, Trade him

Still not concerned about his best .. Concerned about the pitchers best, which in 2012 happened to be when he wasn’t catching!  I think the team would benefit from Satly at backup 1b/C or on another team ..  

Trade him and try and get a prospect or try Lavarnway at first and hope he can start hitting. Don’t need 3 catcher’s unless Lavarnway goes back to Pawtucket. He has nothing more to prove there. Maybe trade him.

Why would they need Salty at first base???  They’ve got Mike “Iron Man” Napoli and his collapsible hip.  This isn’t news.  Move along please.
The David Ross era starts in 23 days!!

Salty can’t get on base enough to justify playing first base.  It’s that simple.  He’s so bad defensively at catcher that his power doesn’t justify his other flaws.  He just shouldn’t be on the team, he’s not good.

I counted seven misspellings of “Saltalamacchia,” all with a missing “a.”

I counted one tool who was checking grammar & spelling

 i counted one idiot who clearly best embodies the pervasive idiocy of american jock culture

 oh, and this idiot also overuses punctuation marks. nice way to enhance your worthless commentary and accent your ineffectual sarcasm.

Good, you shouldn’t be playing first base. Your offensive numbers are barely adequate for a catcher  

there are no 300 hitting catchers  who throw out a lot of runners Salty is better than average-How come nobody complained for the previous 4-5 years when Varitek barely hit 200 and threw nobody out but somehow he was a great catcher?–Please don’t tell me its his game calling brilliance- the pitchers are responsible for the performance anyone who thinks that the redsox pitchers struggled because of the catcher are deluded

We should listen when he says”Catching is where I play my best.”, why?Because his numbers and career arc thus far as a catcher are pretty underwhelming:(low batting average, swing happy, questionable game calling and defense) and if that’s where he plays his best, I’d hate to see him get worse than that. Not trying to crap on our goods here but Salty as a hitter is like a throwback to days of Rob Deer and Dave Kingman style hitters:all or nothing, and really is not the answer going forward at first base or catcher. I wish him a nice career somehwere else, maybe, like San Diego toiling in quiet, calm, obscurity.

A good pitcher shakes off pitches he does’nt like.Any pitcher with experiance should be able to do that.They had no right to expect Salty would be calling the game the way Veratik did.The ERA is on them not Salty,and they would tell you the same thing.If you don’t like a ccertain pitch you shake it off period.

It’s a done deal.  Larry just hasn’t told everyone yet.

While we’re on the subject of fragile hips….The sad part is despite his hip, it’s likely Napoli will be more productive than A-Roid and his bad hip, for much less years and a 1/6 of the cost!  Enjoy!

The guy can bearly catch and now we want him to play first?

For a catcher to be considered good he needs to help his pitchers be better. Tek was one of the better catchers in that respect. His pitchers had a better ERA when he was behind the plate then his replacement. Salty is the opposite The pitchers have higher ERA’s when he is behind the plate. That is why no one talked about Tek having bad defense. Throwing out runners is only a small part of a catchers responsibility. His main responsibility is to call a good game so his pitchers are better.

No .300 hitting catchers who throw out a lot of guys? Why don’t you look at Buster Posey and Yadier Molina. 

Salty is one of the worst defensive catchers in the league. 

 Yes, John, why don’t you just move along…..thanking you!

 Yes John, again I admit it, you’re right again, you are a tool!

Hey, no one is drooling over Salty.

Tristan…good plan…because there is a HUGE market for terrible hitting catchers who also can’t call a good game or throw runners out.  You sir are a genius.  

Salty might still have some usefulness platooning behind the plate.  Ross should be a good upgrade…except he has never been a full time guy.  He usually catches 50-60 games.  They expect more than that I’m sure…but how will he do as a 36 year old veteran?  So do you trade Salty and hand the reins to Lavarnway?  I think the best course is to trade for another catcher.  But if they can’t find an upgrade…better to give Salty one more chance in a lesser, supporting role for now.  Another season (or even a few months) in Pawtucket shouldn’t hurt Lavarnway.  I haven’t mentioned Napoli because I don’t think they want him catching if he has ANY physical limitations.

nonsense, he threw out plenty of guys, 25 homeruns, they cannot afford to get rid of him.

How about the guy who can play there and has a good glove and can hit and has promise as a young player, just in case no one knows who that is… Mauro Gomez

He lives for this shi!  There is no joy in the trolls life.  Only trolling for attention.

Count Napoli in the group and you got 4. One of them is headed to the Astros or WhiteSox.

We learned your not a very good catcher salty

Your 100% right Varitek was an automatic out for the last 4 years he played, all you ever heard was he called a good game, really? I do know this he was a horrible captain and did nothing to keep the team together. And said nothing when they railroaded Francona out of town, Salty is another bum, who strikes out twice a game, these are the kind of players you have when your a last place team, don’t see that changing

Catchers aren’t supposed to put up huge numbers.  Salty/Ross will be your catchers Opening Day with Lavarnway using his last option to start at AAA as a first baseman.   That would give them an insurance policy for Napoli.  

That’s where your wrong he does put up huge number’s. he strikes out twice a game

Trade him to the M’s. They need a complement to Jesus. Give a left handed hitting minor leaguer

Salty’s been healthy the last couple years which was kind of his bugaboo. Yeah he strikes out a bunch, but he’s a decent 27 yr old catcher. He was a huge prospect a ways back. He’s never lived up to it but he’s still solid. He’s a number 7 hitter who throws an avg percentage of runners out. He’s not sterling, no.  I’m not so sure what Lavarnway will be.  But why do we expect freakin’ superstars at every position? Isn’t that how the ownership killed this team?   

 I think that every baseball pro level scout will viamantly disagree with you about the importance of a good game caller/thrower…Then again,,ask any pitcher worth a salt..It helps….Salty’s swing is GIANT as well…

Mauro Gomez has been a notorious rock hands defender at first base his entire career…He’s a DH…

Now if he can only learn how to take off his mask at plays at the plate. He lost more balls than he caught last year.

 At least at first, he won’t have a mask on

Should be about time that you can throw runners out and control the pitchers so they hold the runners. The longer the season and you fold at the plate. Let’s see if you can earn the 3.5M.

A .282 OBP mostly while catching is not “playing my best”. 

That’s funny its actually to have soft hands and good in game pop times

First i highly doubt you know anything about catching, let alone at a high level.second it was not teks place to step in, these are a much of grown men getting paid millions of dollars.

Calling a good game is more important then having so called soft hands. if he doesn’t know how to call the game for the pitcher he is of no use as a catcher. Tek was great at calling games he studied opposing hitters to help him call better games. i would rather have a catcher that hit .230 with 10 hrs and called a good game then a catcher that hit .300 with 30hrs that couldn’t call a game to save his life.there is a big difference between the ERAs of the staff when salty catches and when others catch. having good pop sometimes is ok but not a prerequisite of being a good catcher. neither is having soft hands. calling a good game for your pitchers is a MUST for you to be called a good catcher not a good hitting catcher but a good catcher.