Here is John Sickels' take on Kurt Suzuki. The gist of it is that Suzuki isn't a star in the making, but rather a solid big league regular. Any kind of hitting that rates as anything above "abominable" will be an upgrade on Jason Kendall, of course, but Suzuki may end up pushed out by some of the young catchers the A's have in the minors: Landon Powell (though he's not young anymore) or Anthony Recker, perhaps.