Pittsburgh Pirates: Looking at Catching Depth without Luke Maile

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The Pittsburgh Pirates brought in a catcher last offseason who ended up not playing in a single game. He now is heading to a division rival.

One of Ben Cherington’s first moves as the Pittsburgh Pirates General Manager was to bring in catcher Luke Maile. Last offseason, the Toronto Blue Jays released Maile and Cherington, who was looking for catching depth, picked him up on a minor league contract. The move made sense, being Cherington was coming from Toronto as was Maile.

Overall there was not a high expectation for Maile. It was assumed he would be the primary backup behind Jacob Stallings. Also, it was known that he would not bring much value with the…