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Ten catchers in three seasons is the production gap Tampa Bay Rays have been cycling through behind the plate, and Liam Hicks is the tenth.
Acquired from Miami at the trade deadline, Hicks was batting .282 with 14 home runs when the deal closed.
The Rays described the position as chronically underperforming before his arrival, a label that nine predecessors could not shake. The turnover math Ten catchers across three seasons runs to 3.3 per year.
Nine of them came and went without resolving what the organization itself calls a chronic underperformance problem. That pace at one position points to something structural.
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