He’s Jorge Alfaro, possessor of a 70-grade arm to go with 80-grade hair, and the Red Sox just signed him on a dirt-cheap minor league deal. He spent the previous season out in San Diego, splitting his career between the Phillies and Marlins before that.
What position does he play?
He’s a right-handed hitting catcher.
Is he any good?
He’s actually really good at some things! And, unfortunately, he’s also really bad at others.
Let’s begin with the defense. For starters, Alfaro has an absolutely elite arm. He averaged over 88 MPH on his throws to second last year, making him the second-hardest throwing catcher in all of baseball, with a 96th percentile pop time (pop time measured as the amount of time in between a pitch hitting the catcher’s mitt and the ball then subsequently arriving at the center of the second base bag.