From Phil Rogers:

C.J. Retherford, an all-star second baseman for Birmingham's 92-win team a year ago, will experiment with catching in 2010. He got his first looks there during instructional league and at a January mini-camp for pitchers in Arizona and is expected to work in that role in spring training, after receiving an invitation to major league camp.

 

Sounds good to me. There isn't going to be a middle infield spot open for quite a while (trades pending) and everyone's bat plays better at catcher. We are relatively well stocked at the catching position with Flowers, Phegley and Gonzalez but versatility is always a plus.

If he can stick behind the dish, he can be very useful to the sox; i would to see him develop into the right handed version of john baker, if he can catch it decently and bring a .750ops that would be awesome

Retherford would definitely be a great player to have on the major league team if he can develop as a catcher. It would pretty much give us an extra roster spot since he could play the middle infield too.

I'd call CJ grindy, but I can't because he's a good baseball player. I really hope this works out and if it does, CJ is going to have himself a pretty lengthy career being so damn versatile.

Retherford's doing everything he can to try to make it to the majors. It's great to see a guy willing to make that kind of commitment.

Talk about a super utility guy. If he can catch at all, he makes our bench a lot more flexible if he can make it.

CJ is a RH hitter correct? So we'd still need a LH hitting C behind TFlow?

 

Abbreviate this.

I've said before he reminds me of Craig Biggio, now he's doing a reverse Biggio.

For some reason, I think if the Sox hold on to Retherford, he'll be a starter without a position.

For some reason, I think if the Sox hold on to Retherford, he'll be a starter without a position.

 

That's what Chone Figgins did.

That's what Chone Figgins did.

 

That's a rotation I can get behind.