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2007 Chad Moeller posted a park-inflated age-27 season line of .286/.385/.467 with Arizona in 2002; it`s been all downhill from there. He signed a one-year deal with the Reds to be their third catcher. 2006 Speaking of nothing, the nicest thing you can say about Moeller is that he`s a touch of Teutonic flavor in the most fair-haired, ruddy-cheeked, blue-eyed audience in Major League Baseball. That, and he can tell his friends he was one of the six guys sent to the Brewers in the Sexson trade, if very probably the least valuable. 2005 Moeller was statistically the worst regular catcher in the National League in 2004, with an ugly –10.7 VORP. He hit significantly better as a backup in Arizona, but was overexposed as an everyday player. The signing of Damian Miller to a three year contract insures that the Brewers won't be challenging him with 349 at-bats again anytime soon. 2003 Backup catcher with a bat. Moeller hasn’t really ever had a chance to play full-time, and he may just bust out and put up some solid offensive numbers. He isn’t heralded for his defense, but he doesn’t have a reputation of a Scott Hatteberg or Mike Piazza, so what harm can it do? Considering this organization once rewarded Jorge Fabregas with a bigger contract than he asked for, this has to be seen as a quantum leap forward. 2002 If Barajas is wrong for this team, then Moeller shouldn’t even be on its 40-man roster. Pitchers like throwing to him, and he’s a decent plate-blocker. On the other hand, he doesn’t hit at all and doesn’t do much against the running game. If things break right for him, he’ll be the new Joe Girardi, trying to make a team that already has a turbocharged Girardi in Damian Miller. 2001 Chad Moeller did what he had to do by impressing Tom Kelly quickly. Kelly said he liked the way Moeller called a game, though his Catcher ERA wasn’t any better than the other catchers'. You can tell Moeller knows how slender his opportunity is, because after tearing up his knee in August, he rushed back rather than get lost in the shuffle behind Matt LeCroy and A.J. Pierzynski. Moeller’s future depends on things going badly for everybody else while he keeps up the apple-on-teacher’s-desk routine. 1999 Moeller continued to develop, but at the end of the year, it was LeCroy who got a week in Salt Lake City. His time is now, because LeCroy is a much better hitter, and has a bit of an organizational halo. If he doesn't establish himself in 1999, he's just marking time
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