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Fantasy Baseball: Midseason Catcher Rankings

Jun 23, 2010, 3:30 AM UTC

This article was originally posted by Seth Walder over at Fake Teams

As we make our way toward the All-Star Game, we thought it would be prudent to start our midseason rankings. Every few days, you’ll see a new set of position rankings, starting with catcher, today.

One thing it is important to remember when creating or viewing rankings: these rankings are in order of production from this point until the end of the season. No matter how bad the player may have hurt you already, this is where we believe he stands for the rest of the season.

Separate rankings have been done by Ray, Jason (jumperjah) and myself, and then averaged together to get a group ranking, though you can see each of our individual rankings in the chart below as well.

Rank	Player	Ray	Jason	Seth	Average
1	Joe Mauer	1	1	1	1
2	Victor Martinez	2	2	2	2
3	Brian McCann	3	3	3	3
4	Miguel Montero	5	4	5	4.67
T-5	Mike Napoli	7	6	4	5.67
T-5	Jorge Posada	4	7	6	5.67
7	Carlos Santana	6	5	8	6.33
8	Kurt Suzuki	8	8	7	7.67
9	Buster Posey	11	9	9	9.67
10	Geovony Soto	10	10	13	11
11	Miguel Olivo	14	13	10	12.33
12	John Buck	12	11	15	12.67
13	Ryan Doumit	9	18	12	13
14	Matt Wieters	18	12	11	13.67
15	Yadier Molina	13	15	14	14
16	Rod Barajas	20	14	16	16.67
17	Russell Martin	17	16	18	17
18	Nick Hundley	19	19	NR	18.67
19	Carlos Ruiz	15	NR	NR	19
T-20	A.J. Pierzynski	NR	20	17	19.33
T-20	Ronny Paulino	NR	17	20	19.33
T-20	Jonathan Lucroy	16	NR	NR	19.33
23	John Jaso	NR	NR	19	20.33

It was an interesting group to rank, and not particularly easy as it got fairly ugly fairly fast. One big discrepancy came with ranking Matt Wieters, which should be of no surprise. It more or less comes down to the odds of him finally breaking through. Interesting as well was how different the three of us came down on Ryan Doumit, though considering his injury-riddled past maybe this is less surprising.

Feel free to comment on whom you think we were too high on and too low on, I have no doubt this should cause some conversation.

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