It's to be respected.
Francisco Cervelli knew exactly what he was saying when he told me Sunday at PNC Park that he was done catching. Just as he knew a week earlier when he'd insisted nothing about his positional status or stance had changed. Just as he knew several months earlier when he'd vowed, "I’m a catcher. It’s what I do. I catch.”
So I'll take all of those just as seriously as the message he posted on his Instagram account early Saturday evening that began: "To say I quit from my catcher responsibilities is inaccurate.