[Giants]

Not too many catchers left. I think two-time all-star Gary Sanchez is about it, and he's batted under .200 collectively over the past three years. Might as well have Joey Bart (.645), Patrick Bailey (MILB Gold Glove, but a high-A OPS of .779), but Blake Sobel is interesting: .875 OPS in the minors with 34 home runs in 900 ABs.

Sanchez is a lousy defensive catcher. 

Sabol is a utility player that can catch.  He’s not a catcher per se.  As a backup catcher, job 1 is defense and handling pitchers. Bat is secondary.  If he sticks it’s as a utility player that can be 3d catcher. 

As a Rule 5 guy he has to be significantly better than 12-13 to make team out of ST. And then he has to stay with Giants all year.  Long odds.

I think it's the other way around. In his minor league career, Sabol has played 801 minor league innings at catcher, which is 56% of his innings. In the last two years, he seems to have settled at catcher, with 3/4ths of his innings (800 of 1090) played at catcher.

And he's not a great fielder, to be sure. He throws out 16% of baserunners, his fielding percentage is .993, and he had 11 passed balls in 66 games. For purposes of comparison, Buster Posey had 27 passed balls in 1,063 starts at catcher.

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Correa and Boras don't want to restructure the deal to accommodate for injuries. An internal Mets source places the odds at 55%.  Three other teams are showing interest:

Carlos Correa's Mets deal hangs in the balance as three other teams reportedly show interest in All-Star - CBSSports.com

I’m confident the Giants are not looking at Sabol as a No 2 catcher. The slight chance he has to stick is as a utility player.

At this point, Wynns is the number #2.  What are the chances between now and the beginning of spring training that SF can find someone better?

[Giants]

Not too many catchers left. I think two-time all-star Gary Sanchez is about it, and he's batted under .200 collectively over the past three years. Might as well have Joey Bart (.645), Patrick Bailey (MILB Gold Glove, but a high-A OPS of .779), but Blake Sobel is interesting: .875 OPS in the minors with 34 home runs in 900 ABs.

Sanchez is a lousy defensive catcher. 

Sabol is a utility player that can catch.  He’s not a catcher per se.  As a backup catcher, job 1 is defense and handling pitchers. Bat is secondary.  If he sticks it’s as a utility player that can be 3d catcher. 

As a Rule 5 guy he has to be significantly better than 12-13 to make team out of ST. And then he has to stay with Giants all year.  Long odds.

I think it's the other way around. In his minor league career, Sabol has played 801 minor league innings at catcher, which is 56% of his innings. In the last two years, he seems to have settled at catcher, with 3/4ths of his innings (800 of 1090) played at catcher.

And he's not a great fielder, to be sure. He throws out 16% of baserunners, his fielding percentage is .993, and he had 11 passed balls in 66 games. For purposes of comparison, Buster Posey had 27 passed balls in 1,063 starts at catcher.

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Correa and Boras don't want to restructure the deal to accommodate for injuries. An internal Mets source places the odds at 55%.  Three other teams are showing interest:

Carlos Correa's Mets deal hangs in the balance as three other teams reportedly show interest in All-Star - CBSSports.com

I’m confident the Giants are not looking at Sabol as a No 2 catcher. The slight chance he has to stick is as a utility player.

At this point, Wynns is the number #2.  What are the chances between now and the beginning of spring training that SF can find someone better?