JOSH BARD RUMORS & GOSSIP

The Dodgers have agreed to sign Josh Bard to a one-year deal worth about $750K, tweets Jon Heyman. Dylan Hernandez tweets that it's a minor league contract, oh thank God! Hernandez is also tweeting that the Dodgers are still talking to other catchers and the Bard deal is "not a slam dunk." Not sure what  is going on here, but apparently A.J. Ellis, Matt Treanor...

Compared with Day 1, the Dodgers' second day at the Winter Meetings was slow.News (a term I use loosely here) just broke the Dodgers are close to signing catcher Josh Bard. Jon Heyman first reported it as a 1-year, $750,000 deal.Bard is a catcher and the Dodgers had seemingly filled the need by signing Matt Treanor last month.But here comes Dylan Hernandez to save us all from throwing...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed Josh Bard to a one-year deal, believed to be $750k Jon Heyman of CBSSports reports. Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times clarifies the signing by noting that the deal is a minor-league deal. In 81 at-bats this season, Bard hit .210. The move is considered odd as the Dodgers are set to go with A.J. Ellis behind the plate and recently signed Matt Treanor...

Only because the schedule mandates it, the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics are still playing baseball. There is an upside to having your games lack any meaning, however--you get to attempt nifty little baseball tricks like foul tipping a pitch so it sticks in the catcher's facemask, a feat which was performed perfectly by Oakland's Cliff Pennington and...

In 2007, Josh Bard was worth 3.1 WAR over 443 plate appearances.  He walked almost as much as he struck out, and and ended up with a .768 OPS.  He was a decent defensive catcher, even if he threw out only 8% of attempted base-stealers. It is now 2010.  Josh Bard, who has since become much, much worse, was worth 0.3 WAR over 126 plate appearances.  His strikeout-to-walk ratio...

Josh Bard certainly doesn't have eye-popping statistics, but the veteran catcher understands his role is to serve as a mentor to Adam Moore and produce when he gets in the lineup.

Josh Bard clubbed his first career grand slam Saturday night, highlighting the Mariners' five-run fifth inning that vaulted them to a 9-3 win against the Indians at Progressive Field.

If you’re willing to make the assumption that Eliezer Alfonzo isn’t going to factor into the Major League catching situation, which I am, it comes down to Rob Johnson, Adam Moore, and Josh Bard, all competing for two spots. While the catching situation isn’t going to be quite as screwy as the left field situation, [...]

(AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams. Gimpy Josh Bard enjoyed a 3 RBI night, including a 2 run HR to break a 2-2 tie in the 5th.) "I'm a little frustrated that I didn't make it easier than I did, but we came out with a win, and that's the ultimate goal." (Mike MacDougal, via Washington Post, 9/19/2009) Nats...

  (AP Photo. You know you're in trouble when Josh Bard is providing the only flicker of offensive firepower.) "I just know that we're either hitting or we're not hitting, and right now we're not hitting." (Jim Riggleman, via Washington Times, 9/2/2009) Where's the Offense? Padres 4, Nats 1: The Big Chill continues...