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Yan Gomes – Catcher, $1,083,000

Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

The Brazilian import is under club control through the 2019 season. The Toronto Blue Jays have catcher Russell Martin under contract for the same exact period. Yan Gomes will cost the Cleveland Indians barely $1 million in 2015, while Martin will cost the Jays $7 million and a grand total of $75 million for the next four years after that. Gomes is 27, Martin is 32. How is any of this relevant, you ask?

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Following 2012, the Jays shipped Gomes and infielder Mike Aviles to the Tribe for pitcher Esmil Rogers. Rogers now plays for the New York Yankees in what was a limited capacity for half of 2014. In the one and half seasons he played as a Blue Jay, Rogers went 5-9 with a 5.06 ERA in 60 appearances.

Moral of the story — the Blue Jays made a terrible deal, while the Indians made an incredibly smart one. Gomes was so good in flashes of 2013 he bumped Carlos Santana to first base for the 2014 season. Gomes did not disappoint, winning his first Silver Slugger award and supplying a line of .278-61-21-74-0 to the Tribe’s offense. Add to that a dWAR of 1.2 and and Rtot number of 9 over the last two seasons (Martin’s is 11) and what you have is one very formidable starting catcher for near pennies on the dollar in the baseball world.

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