you:
“Opposing runners run on him because they know he has no arm. And is recuperating from surgery.”

the facts:
Posada has a .319 caught stealing rate, which, if he qualified with his games played, would place him at 6th in all of MLB. Yes, Cervelli’s is better at .375, but in a much smaller sample size.

as for your other arguments:

1) Jorge made the error that ended the no errors in 18 games. WHO CARES? What does this have to do with anything? Everyone makes errors. Or are you seriouisly trying to say that they would have gone the rest of the season without an error?

3) The Yankees were on a good win streak before he came back. They have lost more games since his return.
THIS IS MAYBE THE DUMBEST ARGUMENT OF ALL. Honestly, did you think they would play .800 baseball the rest of the season? They can’t stay as hot as they were, they are going to lose games. That’s baseball.

4) It has been known through the years that some pitchers did not want to pitch to him. IT’S BEEN KNOWN THAT SOME PITCHERS ON EVERY TEAM PREFER WORKING WITH VARIOUS CATCHERS. SO? There are also many pitchers who pitched to him over the Yankees championship runs who not only loved pitching to him, they continue to sing his praises. If Cervelli eventually becomes our starter, there will be guys who prefer working with his backup as well. Again, that’s baseball.

5) He is hard headed and doesn’t like the pitchers shaking him off. You watch Boston games and the pitchers will shake off Tek. He doesn’t make a big deal out it. GUESS WHO THE ABSOLUTE WORST CATCHER IN ALL OF BASEBALL AT THROWING OUT BASE STEALERS IS? YUP, YOUR BUDDY, ‘TEC. What Yankee fan calls the mincer by his Boston nickname anyway?

As has been pointed out here before, the people who are professionals and are making these decisions know a lot more about this stuff than you, or me, or anyone else posting on some blog. But arguing with someone who just flat out makes stuff up to support their argument is pointless anyway.

Mussina won 20 games last year NOT pitching to Posada. Fact.

As players age their skills age too. Lose a step, slow bad speed, a little anxiety. But how does one measure the skills of an aging catcher in regard to behind the plate. We are not talking batting now because Jorge still has a good bat.

1) Jorge made the error that ended the no errors in 18 games.
2) Opposing runners run on him because they know he has no arm. And is recuperating from surgery.
3) The Yankees were on a good win streak before he came back. They have lost more games since his return.
4) It has been known through the years that some pitchers did not want to pitch to him.
5) He is hard headed and doesn’t like the pitchers shaking him off. You watch Boston games and the pitchers will shake off Tek. He doesn’t make a big deal out it.

This Yankee team has soooo much potential and to see the rotation falter is disheartening. If it takes using special catchers, so be it. Anything to win, right? Isn’t that the usual thread on these boards. Win at all costs.

List all of Jorge’s credentials all you want – it is in the past. And good for him. And isn’t that another thread that runs through this board – forget the past? No one is denying Jorge’s career, but face it, or man up, he is not the Jorge of old right now. He can DH with Matsui but limit his catching. If he doesn’t like it. Tough tee.

Facts can be beautiful things. Well put, rconn.

Santana got knocked around TODAY so it’s a good thing we didn’t get him.

It’s a long season. if you keep using that kind of logic you’d be trading or dumping guys every other day based on a single day’s performance.

Great pictures! What a lovely day for you and your family.

-Percy

This sh*t is really getting ridiculous. Have you been watching this season at all? Girardi rests Posada every 3 days by rote. Posada’s no spring chicken anymore, and coming off major shoulder surgery and just came of the dl recently. Give me a break. We have some pitchers who are not performing as well as they should so far (it’s June) so automatically it’s Posada’s fault? Doofus Truthers beware!

He’s our number five starter. As long as we win more than we lose when he starts you can’t be too unhappy with him.

No problem then GreenBeret7.

That means nothing. He had a large lead in Boston and blew it. Thus flawed logic.

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Well, you’re wrong for the second time, and it’s still not flawed.

I didn’t say about him pitching better with a big lead. Read it again and comprehend it. I said the early, big lead gave him a chance to work on other pitches like his change-up. He broke it out in the 5th inning.

“GreenBeret7
June 14th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
That was the advantage that Burnett had that he usually doesn’t have. He got a huge lead, early in the game and he was able to work on his other pitches in a game situation. That’s much better than working on them in side sessions, because he can see the results.”