Kurt Suzuki is not the type of catcher who will regularly steal strikes on the edges of the zone, saving his pitchers a few extra throws a night. He is not the young backstop who will block an errant pitch and, on the same play, heroically throw out a runner on the basepaths.
Yet, he might be the right fit for the Angels in 2021.
Suzuki, 37, signed a one-year, $1.5-million deal to become the Angels’ backup catcher last week, roughly a month after the team narrowly missed adding free-agent James McCann.