Pirates Start Ryan Doumit at Catcher

by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 1, 2008 12:17 PM EDT in News

Last night's game seems like it was interesting for all kinds of reasons. Unfortunately, I missed it - I was flying home while it was going on. I thought I might be able to catch some of it, but my flight got delayed, so I had to settle for a cool aerial view of the home opener at PETCO Park, which was going on while my plane was landing at the airport downtown. I'll hopefully be in the comment thread for the next game.

Anyway, one of the reasons the game was interesting was that Ryan Doumit started at catcher, even though the opposing starter was left-handed and Ronny Paulino pastes lefties. This actually doesn't surprise me a whole lot, and I suspect we're going to see a lot of Doumit and not so much of Paulino. Just a hunch.

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More than one good sign here

From the PG story: "...the Pirates' brass studied video of their at-bats against Glavine -- Doumit was 1 for 6, Paulino 0 for 5 -- and determined that Doumit, who has shown better patience since the middle of last season, might fare better than Paulino, who has not handled Glavine's changeup and cutters well."

Can anyone imagine Tracy or DL even doing this type of analysis? I doubt they'd have looked past the raw numbers, or possibly even at them.

by azibuck on Apr 2, 2008 8:36 AM EDT reply actions