St. Pierre gets to the Show

Thursday, September 02 2010 @ 08:18 AM EDT

Minor league catching stalwart, Maxim St. Pierre (Quebec City, PQ) has been called up by the Tigers and will very likely make his major league debut after 978 minor league games, all but 10 in the Tigers' organization.

Max is a terrific defensive catcher, at least he was when I saw him play for Erie in 2004, but he's always struggled at the plate. Nevertheless, his hitting has slowly improved:

2002	AA	0.673
2003	AA	0.657
2004	AA	0.697
2005	AA	0.690
2006	AAA	0.558
2007	AA(milwaukee)	37 PA
2008	AA/AAA	0.638
2009	AAA/AA	0.715
2010	AAA/AA	0.832

How much better or worse is St. Pierre than Kevin Cash, a catcher who has played parts of 8 seasons and 238 games in the big leagues, largely on the basis of his defensive skills/reputation? Cash's big league OPS is .528, undoubtedly making him one of the worst major league hitters over that span. Over roughly the same period of time, Cash has put up a .692 OPS in AAA in 374 games.

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