I deleted that part of the post. Sorry. The answer to your question is yes. I’m a total sucker for bad teen dramas. Sad, but true.

We have one as our manager :-)

I salute the only real and interesting comment posted so far…(a) I think King is just speculating. There’s absolutely no indication that Moeller will perform any better than Casanova or Molina, and quite frankly, being released by a team that is currently in need of a catcher kind of means that you’re no good. But (b) the Mets are expecting Schneider back any moment now, and with 2 back ups already in place (without even counting Castro), there does not seem to be any real need for another catcher, unless he has a big “upside”. In either case, I suspect this rumor has as much validity as Piazza to the Yankees…

Sometimes you make a move like that to catch lightning in a bottle. Signing Moeller would be more like passing gas in a bottle.

To be fair, they DFA’d him before Posada went down. However, if he’s still available after Posada’s injury, that’d be a big red flag.

If we can get Schneider & Castro back to health, I don’t see any need to worry about our catching corps with ‘Nova, Molina and Manriquez all being serviceable backups (although Manriquez’ bat is uncharacteristically cold so far in the minors)

I believe the relevant phrase is “April numbers”. He’s 7/15 in the last 4 games he played after starting out 3/15 in his first 4.

His average can be expected to drop significantly from there, but he has always had some pop. Not much of an arm (thrown out only 82 of 301 runners), but still a serviceable 3rd catcher.

Nice that he’s produced while the guys in front of him are down.