Yankee Catfight

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Crown@club

Actually Girardi learned from Maddux when they were with the Cubs. 89 postseason Girardi was the Cubs starting catching for the season, but they let Maddux have Wrona Barrett for his games.

In Maddux's first 24 games in the Postseason with the Braves, his catcher caught 21 of them. I'm saying his catcher because there were 3 he had. None named Javy. Have to look up the first name, but Eddie Perez was #2 and Paul Bako #3. In '96, the Braves were down 3-2 to the Cards in LCS when came to the mound in Game 6. Javy was behind the plate. Not sure on the history, maybe Eddie Perez was injured. Braves won and of course went on to win the WS. Javy caught both of Maddux's WS games. In 2003, Cox basically told Maddux that Javy was going to be his catcher for the postseason in which he only made one appearance and last postseason appearance with the Braves. (a different story - I'm trying to imagine how Russ Ortiz was game 1 and 4 starter, while Smoltz and Maddux only had one start a piece in a 5 game set).

Eddie Perez held his own when he was in there.
74 AB - 3HR's 12RBi
.299/.324/.463 splits.

I know what you meant but the Yankees won the world series in 1996. Braves won in 1995.