What, do you have lunch with Chamberlain? Get your tattoos done at the same place as A.J. Burnett? You “know” so much. Where does this knowledge come from? The same place you got the tidbit about Posada’s “weak throwing arm,” which has produced a .319 caught stealing rate so far this year, which, if he had played enough games to qualify would place him 6th among all MLB catchers? He’s “worthless” as a catcher, the guy who world-series winning pitchers loved pitching to and still rave about, yet you know better than them? I don’t know why I even bother responding to self-aggrandizing morons who make idiotic statements like this. At least some of the people making this argument have the brains to say, “I believe certain pitchers don’t like throwing to him” or something like that. But guys like you, who claim with absolute certainty things like “Posada has a weak arm” and “Posada is worthless as a catcher”…
i’d be willing to be that what you know about catching could be squeezed into a thimble. Posada poops out more catching knowledge every day than you’ll ever acquire in your entire life. So do yourself a favor and at least allow the possibility that maybe, just maybe, an all-star catcher like Posada, and Joe Girardi — who you have the stupidity to cite as a catcher superior to Posada, forgetting somehow that he’s the manager who’s actually writing Posada’s name in the lineup — might just know a little bit more than you do, Papa Smurf. Otherwise, you just expose yourself as a clown who knows nothing about what he claims to know everything.

If you want to make this stupid argument, that’s your business, but for God’s sake, “throwed to”?

I’ve been thinking the same thing all year. Zobrist is a prime example. And Mauer, who missed all of April with injury and in a month and a half has his career high in homers? I think the balls have been juiced for a long time now, the bats have something to do with it too and the fact that ballparks are smaller, for the most part. Don’t get me wrong, Mauer’s a great hitter and some guys just figure out how to hit with power over time. But Mauer’s hitting a lot of his to the opposite field. These are line drives that are going out too. The ball just seems to be carrying farther.

Btw, don’t you find it ironic that Eiland’s admission that the pitchers don’t want to throw strikes because of the park came right after Joba’s start when he couldn’t find the plate and was not in sync with Posada? But, I forgot, Joba was erratic because of Posada. How silly of me.

As Bo knowa pointed out, Posada’s CERA has been both higher and lower than his replacement over the years. There is nothing wrong with the way he calls a game. Don’t take this years stats and tell me he is all of a sudden brain dead and forgot how to call a game.