The Cardinals are going to have a new starting catcher this season.
That’s a sentence that we haven’t had to say ‘round these parts for quite a long time. And it’s a sentence that we haven’t had to say ‘round these parts very often at all.
The Cardinals have a storied history at the catching position. They have a Hall of Famer in Ted Simmons, a Hall of Very Good-er in Tim McCarver, and arguably the greatest defensive catcher of all time in Yadier Molina.
(Arguably, Johnny Bench fans. Not definitively. I’m not ready to make that claim myself but we started to hear it stated more frequently this year as Molina was on his farewell tour.