Ernie Clement
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555 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2022
last heard 6 Jul
Ernie Clement’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But not a lot of kind of backup catchers.
And let's be honest, that's what his trajectory with the Jays is because they have an all-star catcher in Alejandro Kirk, who is injured now, but is going to come back and take the reins there.
Not many of them have the level of physical gifts and offensive ceiling that Valenzuela has.
We don't know about the consistency yet.
We don't know where he's going to net out as a major league hitter, but he is a talented guy and he's an exciting player to watch at times.
And when you think of backup catchers, you often think of guys in their 30s who've been around forever, who just kind of trusted to do the job and don't have any of these loud tools.
And he's a little bit different.
There are a lot of considerations to go into.
I understand it.
It's going to be frustrating for a lot of fans to see potentially Valenzuela go down while he's producing above average offense with that taste of power that the team has been lacking.
And Heinemann is doing absolutely nothing offensively.
It's difficult.
At the same time, kind of counterintuitively.
what valenzuela is showing them right now might also make them feel even more emboldened to send him down in that they will want him to get at bats like if kirk comes back there's not a lot of playing time for valenzuela and they might actually be intrigued by what they're seeing and say actually this is a player that we need to develop more and see just what heights this guy can reach
And that won't really happen playing, you know, one game, two games a week with Kirk getting the vast majority of the playing time.
And they don't have a DH thing to play with.
So you're not going to see that, you know, Kirk Jansen thing we saw in the past.
And that'd be getting ahead of ourselves saying, all right, those guys beat DH.
But I'm just saying that they don't.
they don't have those type of options.
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