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[97.3TheFan] Bob Melvin tells @BenAndWoods that Austin Nola has been very prominent in the team’s catcher meetings and has helped Gary Sanchez prepare. Melvin said Nola is doing whatever he can to help the team.

  • June 9, 2023


[97.3TheFan] Bob Melvin tells @BenAndWoods that Austin Nola has been very prominent in the team’s catcher meetings and has helped Gary Sanchez prepare. Melvin said Nola is doing whatever he can to help the team.

13 comments

  1. If Nola could just be like…a 0.1 WAR backup catcher, he’d be incredibly valuable.

  2. He’s not a bad guy.

    He’s just a bad batter and can’t throw to second reliably.

  3. Putting him on the IL and giving him a temporary game planning role and rehab would be better for both him and the Padres long term. Guy took a ball to the face, his vision might be slightly off or it could be the yips. Either way playing half the time won’t benefit him or the team.

  4. Well since he can’t bat or throw I’m glad he found some way to help

  5. Nola knows the game….he is probably going to end up as an assistant coach after he retires. That’s why i find awful how he is being treated by the fan base. He is not performing offensively, but the guy it’s a true QB behind plate.

  6. I remember there being an issue when Hedges was getting started about Brad Norris seeing him as competition and not helping, glad to see it’s not repeating itself here.

  8. This pretty much answers why the Padres have kept him.. Nola has basically become a coach lol

  10. Textbook Melvin on never throwing his guys in the clubhouse under the bus. Not to mention he likes Nola.

    The average MLB career length is 5.6 years. The average age out of the league is 29.5. It very well could be that Nola is reaching his expiration date as a player. Catching also doesn’t extend careers.

    Kinda is what it is and nice seeing Bob being the class act he is. Good on Nola being active in game meeting even if that’s a standard thing at this level.

    Imo, this is Bob giving some love to a guy clearly struggling and hearing it from every corner of the fanbase and media.

  11. We don’t need him to coach lol he needs to be sleeping in the batting cage.

  12. I agree. The less Nola plays the more he can help the team. Keep it up Bob.

  13. The tough thing about Nola is that he will always be judged by the trade that he was acquired in. Which isn’t his fault. But it is what it is. I don’t despise him as much as I despise Hosmer because Hosmer had a crap attitude and cost a lot of money. But at the end of the day, Nola is an easy out in a lineup in desperate need of offense. And he has a cheap contract so he’s a much easier fix in the rest of our lineup. So he must be sacrificed to the baseball gods!

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