J.P. Arencibia is not the Tampa Bay Rays’ type of catcher. His defense is well below-average, and though he does hit home runs, he has never managed even a .285 on-base percentage in the big leagues. Despite those facts, though, Arencibia is a player that we have talked about as a Rays target for a long time. In five minutes of searching through the Rays Colored Glasses archives, I found that I wrote about him in that vein on 11/19/12, 10/22/13, 12/2/13, and even briefly on 12/8/14.
With that in mind, maybe it was inevitable that J.