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You Wanna Have A Catch?
Written by wrigleyville   
Thursday, 11 January 2007
Ted Lilly is with the Cubs in part because he didn’t want to play catch with Gregg Zaun. Now we learn John Thomson signed with the Blue Jays – to play catch with Zaun, no less – because he doesn’t want to play catch with Paul Lo Duca.

Goodness. I guess the key to signing mediocre to bad pitchers is to make sure you have a guy behind the plate they like. Maybe Owen Wilson. Or Vince Vaughn. They seem like fun. Or Brad Pitt – at least the Ocean’s Eleven Brad Pitt, not the Fight Club Brad Pitt (aka Michael Barrett).

Back to Thomson, who offered this critique of the Mets by way of explaining why he turned down their offer and decided instead to sign with Toronto:

"As far as just looking at Paul Lo Duca across the field, I'm not really into how he acts behind the plate. I know a bit about Gregg Zaun, and I know he wants to win and he's not going to let anything get in his way to do that, and I like that. And then with Vernon Wells in center field, I'm not really concerned about the outfield with him out there. ... Just watching the Mets' outfield, if Cliff Floyd is there it's not a real good fit for him out there. He can hit the ball, but as far as defense, he's a little shaky.”

Indeed. Thomson knows the value of having a good center fielder behind him from his time in Atlanta, where he pitched the last three seasons with nine-time Gold Glover Andruw Jones watching his back.

And how did he do with that defensive help? A career 62-84 pitcher, Thomson put up one winning season with Atlanta (the only one in his career) - sliding from 14-8 with a 3.72 ERA in 2004 to 4-6 with a 4.47 ERA and 2-7 with a 4.82 ERA in the last two years. Who knows what it would have been without Jones behind him.

Unfortunately, the Mets and Blue Jays don’t play this season.

Note: That’s a site-record three movie references in one post! Two are overt, so we’ll give a free Wrigleyville23 subscription to the first person to name the third (assuming anyone has made it to the bottom of this mess).

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