The time of Romine should be here already

Seriously play this guy

Romine time should be upon us right now. The Yankees have a young catching prospect who has heated up after a poor start and is playing very well and a veteran who seems to be struggling in every facet of his game.On a team that is looking to save money and build this would be a very good time to see if Romine can be the starting catcher or if they need to try and sign one this off season. Personally I think they should try and sign Brian McCann anyway but if the Yankees want to stick to the $189 million plan then seeing if Romine can grab the job would seem ideal. Instead the Yankees have given more majority of starts to Chris Stewart who has looked really gassed down the stretch for the Yankees, which makes sense since he has played in more games than he ever has in his career. Here are his stats for the first and second half:

As you can see his first half isn't bad, not good but not awful either and then he just nosedives after the all star break. Defense is another matter, the stats seem to indicate that he is a good defender but I just have trouble accepting that given that I actually watch him play. Stewart seems to get crossed up a lot and therefore allows a lot of passed balls and wild pitches and he does rank 5th in passed balls and Yankees pitchers have thrown 25 wild pitches with him catching. Remember in Toronto he turned a third strike right down the middle into two runs as he had to run back to the backstop and overthrew first base. Stewart does reportedly come with a very good framing ability which admittedly is very hard to track but I will accept it. Personally I want to absolutely destroy Chris Stewart and say that recently called up Catching prospect JR Murphy should be the backup over him but Chris Stewart really isn't the worst backup, he definitely isn't the best or really very good but he is passable. That still does not change the fact that Romine should be the starter over Stewart and right now they are sort of splitting the time with Stewart having fifteen starts in the last month to Romine's ten.

Have the Yankees forgotten that Romine was a top 10 prospect for the Yankees  and a top 100 overall prospect by Baseball America before last year when a back injury really limited him to only 17 games on the year. Scouts thought that Romine could be a .270 hitter with 10 HR's a year and good defense which while it isn't star level production is decent starter material. We all know that Romine started off the season dreadfully and really the Yankees should have taken a flier on one of the many catchers who were on waivers at some point this season but they didn't and now Romine has really turned it around:

BABIP would say that Romine has been getting lucky while Stewart has been unlucky in the second half, but honestly the Yankees should ride that momentum and go with Romine, Stewart will still get plenty of chances to play but Stewart isn't the catcher of the future while Romine very well might be. Romine just needs to be given the chance and this seems like it should be the perfect time for him to be given the reins but alas the Yankees are likely to keep giving the nod to Stewart more times than not.