Jason Kendall Is Still Second In The AL In Innings Caught

by Freneau on Sep 28, 2010 12:11 AM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

Here are the AL Leaders in innings caught this season:

A.J. Pierzynski: 1063
Jason Kendall: 1018
Matt Wieters: 1007
Kurt Suzuki: 1004
Joe Mauer: 939

I know that Kendall talk isn't exactly new or timely, yet this is still astounding. Kendall hasn't played since August 30th. It is now September 27th.

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Amazing

by kcbottom9th on Sep 28, 2010 1:17 AM EDT reply actions

Kendall is so awesome that he knew he would get injured

and tried to put all his innings into year 1 of the contract to make it worth it for the Royals.

by AxDxMx on Sep 28, 2010 1:25 AM EDT reply actions

Until just a week or so ago

Scotty Pods was also listed amongst the AL batting average leaders.

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by cmkeller on Sep 28, 2010 2:02 AM EDT reply actions

You hear people – presumably baseball people – trumpeting the heroics of this stat, as though mere repetition is a measure of talent. But if there was a way to calculate quality innings, Kendall’s numbers would drop. He’s terrible. He couldn’t throw out Billy Butler, for chrissakes, and there’s no upside when he’s at the plate. Big friggin deal he’s played all those innings. A surgeon could set some kind of record for most operations but you can get a good bulk of those operations would be botched. So Kendall got in over a thousand innings. To me, all that reveals is that our management should be kicked in the collective ass a few hundred times.

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by LaFLamme on Sep 28, 2010 3:10 AM EDT reply actions

I love that picture

He just looks so confused. Maybe he’s actually a neandertal that doesn’t know what a camera is.

So, what do we think will happen when Kendall eventually isn’t around anymore? How will Yost play another, possibly younger, catcher? I can’t imagine he would do the same thing, but he might surprise me.

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by MinnesotaRoyal on Sep 28, 2010 7:37 AM EDT reply actions

Looks like the lead in "Quest for Fire."

Though he shouldn’t get Rae Dawn Chong ‘in the end.’

by Steve Hovley on Sep 28, 2010 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions

dude's gritty

No denying that.

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by StonewallPDS on Sep 28, 2010 9:36 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

How the hell could he let AJ pass him?

As much as I don’t like Jason, I really hate AJ.

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by Jeff Zimmerman on Sep 28, 2010 10:31 AM EDT reply actions

Must. Kneecap. Pierzynski.

Not for this. Just for being a general ass.

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by MinnesotaRoyal on Sep 28, 2010 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions

this is ridiculous

I honestly can’t believe it’s true… then I can

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by AtTheWall on Sep 28, 2010 12:05 PM EDT reply actions

Kendall?

The coddling of Kendall is surely the strangest thing to happen in a pretty strange season—-other than the usual losing a lot. His catching credentials and “grittiness” aside, how in the world does a guy with 0 homers, no speed, and an average bat at best, get put in the lineup as a number 2 hitter day after day? I’ve never seen anything like it. And to top it all off, the guy was severely injured. I know Yost was a catcher back in the day, but I’m really wondering about his judgment as to how to win ballgames. Kendall, as a hitter, was a turd in the punchbowl at No. 2 (pun unintended). I hope Kendall retires.

by Timba Land on Sep 29, 2010 6:32 AM EDT reply actions