Yadier Molina claps back at Willson Contreras

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The Cubs-Cardinals rivalry is heating up early, it appears.

Just a few days after Willson Contreras told Chicago Sun-Times' Steve Greenberg that he believes he's going to be better than Yadier Molina and Buster Posey, Molina clapped back with an Instagram post:

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That translates to "respect the ranks" showing Molina standing side-by-side with Posey.

At Cubs Convention over the weekend, Contreras said:


"I used to watch a lot of those guys but now I'm watching myself because I know that I'm going to be better than them. That's my plan. That's my mindset. 

“I know that I have a lot of talent and I thank God every day for giving me this kind of talent that I have. In my mind, I want to be the best catcher in the game for a long time — like it was with Yadier Molina, like it is with Buster Posey.”


MLB stoked the flames of this fire by Tweeting out a quote graphic Wednesday morning:

Neither Molina nor Contreras are strangers to keeping it real and saying how they truly feel, so this could get fun.

To be fair, though, it's not like Contreras said anything bad. He's a confident kid who believes he will eventually be the best catcher in the game (though the argument could easily be made that he's already close).

No issue in that. 

Molina has a point, too, that Contreras has only spent the last year-and-a-half in the majors, so maybe not the best time to be making such proclamations, but whatever.

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