With the offensive step back he has taken this year this seems like an overpay.

He's had two good years. I doubt he projects to more than about average going forward. And guaranteeing 5 years to a catcher? You'd better be damn sure he's worth it, if you do that...

That's my take too. Too much, too long for a catcher currently sporting a .700-ish OPS.

I'm an AL guy, so I'm not hip to Montero, but really?

This joke gets funnier every time I hear it.

Wait, 60 guys tried to steal on him already this year? Or am I misreading that?

I blame the Mauer contract.

But mostly I blame Towers.

Site is screwy.

I linked this yesterday...(last night my time). It's not on Hot topics because nobody was interested to talk about it.

If you click on the link at the top of the submission that says Diamondbacks, it brings you to the Newsbeat home page that includes articles for all teams.

If you used the drop down files to select Diamondbacks news, all that comes up is this submission.

Weird.

Besides the aforementioned fact that he appears to be regressing already, Montero cannot hit left-handed pitching at all. This is a lot of money for a platoon catcher with a limited history of success.

Well, he's not hitting lefties well at all the last couple years, but for his career .234/.294/.346, so thats not "cannot hit left handed pitching at all". But still a far cry from someone like Brian McCann, .266/.330/.437 who more than holds his own vs. lefties.

Yeah, this is an overpay and poor bet by the D Backs. That said, I think he's probably somewhat better than some of the posters in this thread are giving him credit for. Since 2009 in 1511 PA's he has a 111 OPS+. He has pop....he's a much better hitter than his numbers so far this year.He's become very good defensively, ranking high in pitch framing, caught stealing the last two years, and he handles a staff pretty well.

3/30 would have been much more appropriate, but he wouldn't sign for that. The team offered him 4/32 and he turned that down. I think they felt like they would lose him and had no other options.

I would have let him walk. But Montero is a good catcher and a great guy. If nothing else, I'm happy for him personally.

I think we all need to recalculate our expectations. In 2007 it was generally expected that by 2012 $/win would get to $6M. But it stayed around $4.5M all this time. This offseason and season seem to have increased it in a hurry, perhaps at $6M/win now, with expected increases. Basically, we need to bump every prediction up by a third. So, if you would have signed him for 4/36 after the last season, 5/60 is not crazy.