Gilmartin has been passed by Hale, Martin, Northcraft and others. He means absolutely nothing to this organization and his ceiling is a back of the rotation innings eater AT BEST. This is a great move to get a great bat for the bench.
AUTiger7222 (01-06-2014), The Chosen One (12-18-2013)
If he is a bench player, I love it.
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It is pretty charitable to call Doumit a catcher, sure he plays the position. But he is as bad as they come at doing so. He is the worst at pitch framing and just plain bad defensively overall too. He is also bad defensively at first and in the outfield. Probably the safest position to start him (when you do so) is left field, though the Twins started him in right field. Further, I am low on Gilmartin and said a year ago we ought to trade him before he loses all value. At least we were able to get something for him. Plus they probably wanted to move him to make room for better prospects.
Doumit has the potential to really help off the bench, but my fear is that Fredi will have him catching and playing right field too much. But if we just use him in left occasionally and as emergency catcher, then it could work out okay if he hits enough.
Last edited by Braves1976; 12-21-2013 at 04:38 PM.
Our 1st rounder from just two years ago nets us a bench guy for one year. I hated the pick then, and the end of his time as a Brave proves it was pretty much a whiff of a 1st round pick.
That said, though Doumit has regressed quite a bit over the past couple years, he should still be a very good bench guy who can play catcher, 1st base and the corner outfield positions, plus is a switch hitter. Should really improve our bench. I wonder how this affects Laird, Terd and Gamel.
Well we certainly have a much better bench this year with Gamel and Doumit. And a third catcher so Fredi hopefully won't be afraid to pinch hit Gattis when Gattis isn't starting.
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Leave it to people here to complain about trading a guy who would be lucky to be a #5 to get a good bench bat back. Gilmartin will be lucky to be a long reliever in this league. It was a miss on a draft pick. Acknowledge it and move on.
AUTiger7222 (01-06-2014)
Doumit likely provides more value off the bench this year than Gilmartin ever would for our major league squad.
I don't think Doumit will play much catcher unless there is an injury or someone turns into a pumpkin. But he will be a very useful pinch hitter. His presence will also allow Fredi to use Gattis as a pinch hitter when he isn't starting. Plus we now have our DH for interleague and the WS.