Joey Bart's the starting catcher.

Like, we can agree on that, right?

Because if we can't, the rest of this episode is going to be a little bit complicated.

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We're cool with this, right?

Okay, Bart's the catcher. There's no way it wouldn't be Bart,

regardless of what were to happen in spring training, because for maybe the billionth time,

Bradenton produces numbers that can't be replicated in the regular season, because Bradenton can't be replicated in the regular season because Bradenton can't be replicated in the regular season.

So Bart's the guy.

And in full fairness and context and everything else, Ben Charington and his staff did a wonderful job in recognizing that Bart's pedigree could have paid off.

They were smart to acquire him from the Giants and offer a change of scenery, and Bart obviously

did the rest.

Good for them, good for him.

No, as a certain gentleman named Paul Harvey used to say many, many years ago, for the rest of the story.

This is like, you can't say anything good about them without coming up with two things bad to say about them.

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