Doumit and Paulino

[Chuckd05]

why do the pirates keep giving paulino 2-3 starts a week? Any pirate fans out there know if he is that much better on D than doumit? Doumit is perhaps the pirates best run producer this season, their cleanup batter, and is hitting for a very high and respectable average. Yet he is almost splitting time with a guy who is barely batting .200 who never produces anything. How does this coach stomach benching doumit... and it seems when doumit plays on consecutive days his bat gets even better. When he gets a string of 3-4 starts he will do better and better and the next day after he hits a game winning hit or something, he is back on the pine. He nomrally goes 0 fer after a days rest too. Just a very irritating thing that has been bothering me... any pirate fans out there know why paulino still is even considered their starter or a time share catcher?

[Chuckd05]

paulino has 1 hit in the last two weeks... he basically has half the ABs as doumit, so they are prob on a 2 game doumit, 1 game paulino rotation... still seems illogical to me to pull doumit's bat out of the order

[harold_bush]

As a Doumit owner, I'm not complaining too much. Doumit is still the 2nd best catcher in our league format, and while the rest is frustrating, it will likely be helpful down the road. Hell, it might be helpful now in keeping Doumit fresh. As the season wears into summer, most catchers slow down offensively. Having this extra rest will probably keep Doumit fresher.

[siQ_innovation]

As a Doumit owner, I'm not complaining too much. Doumit is still the 2nd best catcher in our league format, and while the rest is frustrating, it will likely be helpful down the road. Hell, it might be helpful now in keeping Doumit fresh. As the season wears into summer, most catchers slow down offensively. Having this extra rest will probably keep Doumit fresher.

Very good point about the "freshness". I'd rather have a catcher that can stay fresh and constant give me 1-4's, 3-4's, etc etc instead of giving me a 3-4 and then a 0-4 because he's tired. Fresh catchers can put up the numbers and keep your AVG from dropping, I'm liking how the Pirates are giving him some days off. So he can produce better offensively and keep away from injuries.

[Lynchman1]

Giving him days off?? It seems like he barely plays. I am a Doumit owner and I am complaining. He's the team's cleanup hitter and he is out of the lineup 1 out of every 3 games, that's significantly hurting the Pirates offense. I have no problem giving the guy rest but he should play at least 4 out of every 5 games. He's 27 years old I think he can play 4 or 5 games in a row.

[hwiggen]

Doesn't Doumit have a history of injury problems? Maybe it just seems that way to me but that could be a factor in the Pirates decision to rest him so often.
And, Pirates fans, how are these guys defensively? I know that in the past they had Doumit moving to the OF or 1B with Paulino behind the plate. Maybe Paulino is an upgrade defensively.

[Ursa]

Doesn't Doumit have a history of injury problems? Maybe it just seems that way to me but that could be a factor in the Pirates decision to rest him so often.
And, Pirates fans, how are these guys defensively? I know that in the past they had Doumit moving to the OF or 1B with Paulino behind the plate. Maybe Paulino is an upgrade defensively.

I read somewhere this morning that the Pirate pitchers prefer Paulino behind the plate. However, Doumit is improving in his catcher skills.

I have Doumit as my one spare batter. Tonight I'm starting him in his OF capacity over Delmon Young. My main catcher is Benjie Molina.

Edit: And as I typed this, Doumit got a single.