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It's not gonna do him any good to take a year off from swinging the bat just to hope for a couple of emergency innings at some point. Olivo's already had several rest days, both on the way back from Japan and on Easter Sunday, so it's not like Wedge has already shown his hand and will be driving Olivo into the ground for another career high 130+ games this year.
But Jaso will be around next year while Olivo may or may not be, and Montero is still supposed to catch games too. Jaso's gotta play this year - if not for the Mariners, then in the minors.
Except Moore needs to play too, and is playing well in his first few games recovering from that broken wrist. If Jaso is demoted to play, he's cutting into Moore's time. Maybe that doesn't matter, maybe it does.
I never thought we'd have too many catchers, but...we'll see. I'm with moe - if Olivo (or Millwood for that matter) is gonna be here to get a lot of time mentoring young pitchers, then add ALL the young pitchers. Why have him mentor your B team of Beavan and Delabar and Noesi when Paxton, Hultzen and half your bullpen 2013 bullpen are down in the upper minors?
We'd better see significant promotions in May and June unless the big leaguers are just killing it. So far it looks like Delabar can stay and Sherrill can go, ASAP. Beavan's making himself hard to dislodge (good for him, keep it up). Noesi and Millwood get a few starts to show whether they should be with us, and in what capacity.
But it looks like Olivo is pretty well entrenched, to Jaso's detriment. Our first long stretch without a scheduled day off starts the last week of April - I want to see how we shuffle Jaso, Olivo and Montero behind the plate, but we probably won't see all three shuffled until maybe that stretch through the first week and a half of May.
I don't want to see Olivo for more than 100 games this year, and ideally not more than 90. Let Montero or Jaso catch Felix - he calls his own game anyway. Same with Vargas and potentially Millwood for as long as he's here. Olivo can work with the kids for the first stretch.
Another thing that's not gonna happen, I guess.
~G