The Significance of the John Buck Signing...

I might be just a little bit late on the ball here, but I wanted to remind all Blue Jay fans who the starting catcher for the 2010 season is: JOHN BUCK.

John Buck has been known to handle a young pitching staff extraordinarly well in the past. The reason the Blue Jays' young starters have performed so well is due to the number of elite catching prospects in the organization. I'm sure AA realized this and went out and got a quality catcher that he really liked with a lot of upside potential.

John Buck may have only played in 59 games last season, but he hit 8 homeruns in those 59 games, and over the course of a 110-game season for an average catcher, Buck could hit nearly 20 in the safe confines of the Rogers Centre!

He'll be no worse or no better than Rod Barajas, perhaps, and that's something we will marvel and revel at in 2010!

Buck will join a long list of sluggers in Toronto that includes Aaron Hill, Adam Lind, Travis Snider, Randy Ruiz, Lyle Overbay, Vernon Wells and Brett Wallace who all have the capability of hitting 20 or more homeruns this season.

After all, Buck's bound to become an instant fan favourite with pictures like those above, eh?