Why soto over torrealba

Torrealba became expendable with the acquisition of Geovany Soto. Sullivan reports. The year-old has a. Why would you acquire an automatic out and DFA someone who is hitting better?

Soto is OPSing. It would be a good move. I like the prospects of The Giants signing Lyle Overbay as he is a good contact hitter and we definitely need offense. I like Yorvit. Maybe the team is holding a grudge over his altercation with the ump in Venezuela last winter. Soto has put up two very good years -- a 3. He's got talent, but, for a catcher, he's getting old as he turned 29 in January. He'll be arbitration eligible for the final time this winter, and could help more next year than this year.

For now, it's a low risk, potentially high reward trade -- though I wouldn't count on Soto making a major impact this season, he could next year. Photographs by jamesbrandon , jdtornow , phlezk , flygraphix , mcdlttx , tomasland , and literalbarrage used in background montage under Creative Commons.

Thank you. Soto is expected to be in uniform for Tuesday's game with the Los Angeles Angels. We also want to thank Yorvit for his work here over the past two seasons. The year-old Soto has been with the Cubs his entire big league career starting in and was an All-Star and National League Rookie of the Year in This season, he's batting. He missed about a month with a torn mensiscus in his left knee from mid-May to mid-June, but has played better since returning.

He is hitting. Soto is a career. Torrealba was batting. He was the club's starting catcher when began, but Mike Napoli 's huge second half pushed Torrealba to a backup role in the postseason.

The catchers were splitting time this season.