The Catching Situation: What Happens with Tucker Barnhart?

Editor’s Note: I hope you will join me in welcoming Ashley Davis to the Redleg Nation family. This is actually not Ashley’s first piece for RN; she wrote this piece six years ago (!) about Joey Votto and Yonder Alonso. I’m really excited that she’s joining us at RN for the 2017 season. Please make her feel welcome! — Chad Dotson

On Monday, Reds manager Bryan Price told the Cincinnati media the Reds will carry no more than two catchers when they break camp at the end of March. Ideally, he would like it to be Devin Mesoraco and Tucker Barnhart. Yes, there are still questions about the health of Mesoraco, but for the first time since 2013, when Mesoraco and Ryan Hanigan split time behind the…