With our current starting catcher hitting .216/.300/.364 and our backup hitting .235/.308/.333 it may be time to start thinking about replacing Cash and/or Varitek. For everything that is made of how well Varitek handles our pitchers, there may be a time where his lack of offensive production and poor rate of throwing out basestealers overshadow his intangibles. And, if you ask me, that time has come. Varitek is essentially a black hole of production at the bottom of our lineup. 

The only difficulty is that young C's are hard to come by, and teams that get them rarely want to give them away. The only team with multiple good young catchers is Texas. To get one of them might mean giving up Bowden, Masterson, or both. 

Which brings us the idea of available veteran catchers, of which there are once again next to none. With the Mariners struggling Kenji Johjima will probably become available, he's an excellent defender and would probably be good for the clubhouse in terms of Dice-K and Okajima, but do we really want a guy hitting .229/..270/.317. Even though he has that atrocious line his struggles may be at least partly attributed to playing for a dysfunctional team in Seattle, and a change in scenery could produce more respectable numbers.

The only other veteran Catcher that's available would be Paul Lo Duca of the Nat's, a player I wouldn't want to touch with a ten foot pole. He's missed significant time this year and is hitting .228/..307/.291, plus he was a steroid user in the past, meaning his body is most likely breaking down.

So what do you think RSN, what should we do at Catcher?