While we will update our prospect lists, in the coming months, we will switch in a new direction to help prepare for the upcoming draft. We go position-by-position to provide player values and basic projections (BA, HR, RBI, R, SB). As we go, we will continue updating our spreadsheet. For example, here is the final version of the spreadsheet from last season. The sheet provides a helpful tool for navigating through the players at your draft and is updated constantly.
Here are the top 30 catchers and the spreadsheet, which is pretty empty right now (will try to fill in depth charts this week).
1. Joe Mauer—MIN $31 .320, 15, 80, 85, 5
2. Buster Posey—SF 24 .300, 20, 80, 80, 5
3. Victor Martinez—DET 23 .290, 20, 85, 75, 0
4. Brian McCann—ATL 21 .280, 25, 85, 70, 5
5. Carlos Santana—CLE 20 .270, 15, 75, 70, 5
6. Matt Wieters—BAL 17 .280, 15, 80, 60, 0
7. Kurt Suzuki—OAK 16 .270, 15, 70, 70, 0
8. Miguel Montero—ARI 16 .270, 15, 70, 65, 0
9. Mike Napoli—LAA 15 .260, 20, 75, 60, 0 (DH)
10. Geovany Soto—CHI 13 .270, 15, 65, 60, 0
11. Miguel Olivo—SEA 12 .250, 15, 50, 45, 0
12. Jorge Posada—NYY 10 .260, 15, 65, 55, 0 (DH)
13. John Buck—FLA 10 .260, 15, 60, 50, 0
14. John Jaso—TB 10 .270, 10, 55, 60, 5
15. JP Arencebia—TOR 9 .230, 20, 65, 50, 0
16. Yadier Molina—STL 9 .270, 10, 55, 50, 0
17. Russell Martin—NYY 9 .260, 5, 50, 55, 5
18. Ramon Hernandez—CIN 9 .270, 10, 40, 50, 0
19. Carlos Ruiz—PHI 8 .270, 10, 45, 40, 0
20. Alex Avila—DET 7 .260, 10, 45, 40, 0
21. Bengie Molina—FA 7 .260, 10, 45, 35, 0
22. Wilson Ramos—WAS 7 .260, 5, 50, 50, 0
23. J. Saltalamacchia—BOS 7 .265, 10, 50, 40, 0
24. Jonathan Lucroy—MIL 7 .260, 10, 50, 50, 0
25. A.J. Pierzynski—CWS 6 .270, 5, 45, 40, 0
26. Chris Ianetta—COL 6 .240, 10, 50, 45, 0
27. Nick Hundley—SD 5 .250, 5, 40, 40, 0
28. Rod Barajas—LAD 5 .240, 15, 50, 45, 0
29. Jason Castro—HOU 5 .240, 5, 40, 45, 0
30. Chris Snyder—PIT 4 .240, 10, 40, 45, 0
Note: The rankings will improve as I learn more because I’m still fairly early in researching the players.
What’s up Darren,
I play in a similar league, except we play 6×6 and count IP and BB’s as additional categories. We can definitely look into adding projections for BB’s and AB’s. The weak spot is our site format makes it harder for us to organize the information as well as we’d like. But we can definitely give it a shot.
The 1B vales should be posted soon. We also finished the chart to include all the updated depth charts and “preliminary values” that we’ll update as we create the positional posts.
Hi,
I’m in an OBP league, and also in a league that uses walks in the point calculations. It seems like you have room for more stats like at bats, walks or OBP, maybe even total bases.
Thanks.
Definitely. Last season, we considered trying a system of notations on a spreadsheet that would “mark” various players with certain attributes. For example, prospects w/ long-term upside would be italicized, players in a platoon would be marked w/ a star, etc. This season, the depth charts are preliminary because it’s still early in the off-season. But we’ll try to do something regarding which backups are worth grabbing deep leagues.
For leagues that allow/require backups, the value of a player if something should happen to the front line player would be of great value as well. Knowing which backup to a regular is worth having as an alternative would be great.
Great point. It’s a typo on the spreadsheet. Last night, I remember Torrealba was the first omission from the list b/c I valued him at $4.I somehow typed $9 on the spreadsheet by accident. The values and depth charts are definitely a “work in progress” that we update as we gain additional information (and fix the occassional typo). Thanks for the feedback, and I’ll definitely get it fixed.
Where’s Yorvit Torrealba? $$ value is $9 on spreadsheet but not listed on rankings. Thanks
Great suggestion. We can absolutely add playing time.
Ack, don’t know what happened up with that last quote. It should have read: “Can I make a suggestion? If you are posting these lists as a resource tool, the projections will be infinitely more valuable if you include playing time (AB/IP)…”