PT TOMORROW: NL Central—PIT has options to upgrade at catcher
Apr 24 2023
The Pirates have gotten off to perhaps the most surprising start of the season around the majors. That’s likely to change, but even if it doesn’t, this isn’t likely a team that is going to push all of its chips into the center of the table in 2023 via trade. Instead, it might look to make upgrades internally. Despite the rotation’s excellent run (14 quality starts in 23 games to begin the season), there will inevitably be turnover at the position as the season progresses. Another fairly obvious place for improvement is at catcher. Austin Hedges (C, PIT) has done pretty much exactly what was expected of him, which is to play excellent defense (94th percentile framing) while producing absolutely nothing at the plate (27...
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