All I'm saying is Suzuki isn't the catcher people think he is. And I like how you clipped only '08-'11. You forgot 2007 and 2012. Ramos will be a good player, and I'm not happy the Nats traded a good young catcher in Frietas to the A's for a guy who is mediocre at best. Given some more time, Frietas could have blossomed into a great young catcher.
We have to transition from this fear of sacrificing the future for the present that made sense when we weren't winning. Flores wasn't getting the job done with the bat or defensively. Suzuki may or may not get the job done with the bat but he is a defensive stud and sacrificing Freitas (a catcher who was hopelessly blocked in this organization behind Ramos, Flores, Solano, and even Leon) is a win now move that really needed to be made. Put another way, Freitas was never likely to be the difference between us winning a championship or not but Suzuki could be this year.
