2019 Catcher Rankings by Paul Sporer March 4, 2019 Catcher is so brutal. As if it couldn’t get worse, Salvador Perez is now out for the year. I’m not even sure everyone I listed is real. Podcasts on C: J&J, Sporer Solo What’s your strategy at C in 1-C leagues v. 2-C leagues? How do you play it in shallow (10-12) v. deep (15)? Who’s your favorite gamble outside of my top 15? 2019 Catcher Rankings PLAYER TEAM AGE 1 Gary Sanchez NYY 26 2 J.T. Realmuto PHI 28 3 Wilson Ramos NYM 31 4 Yasmani Grandal MIL 30 5 Buster Posey SF 32 6 Willson Contreras CHC 26 7 Yadier Molina STL 36 8 Danny Jansen TOR 23 9 Kurt Suzuki WAS 35 10 Welington Castillo CWS 31 11 Francisco Cervelli PIT 33 12 Austin Barnes LAD 29 13 Tucker Barnhart CIN 28 14 Mike Zunino TB 28 15 Austin Hedges SD 26 16 Robinson Chirinos HOU 34 17 Yan Gomes WAS 31 18 Omar Narvaez SEA 27 19 Isiah Kiner-Falefa TEX 24 20 Jorge Alfaro MIA 25 21 Willians Astudillo MIN 27 22 Jonathan Lucroy LAA 32 23 Francisco Mejia SD 23 24 Elias Diaz PIT 28 25 Chance Sisco BAL 24 26 John Hicks DET 29 27 Victor Caratini CHC 25 28 Chris Iannetta COL 35 29 Tom Murphy COL 27 30 Eno Sarris ATH 39 31 Tony Wolters COL 27 32 Carson Kelly ARI 24 33 Jason Castro MIN 31 34 Mitch Garver MIN 28 35 Tyler Flowers ATL 33 36 Christian Vazquez BOS 28 37 Blake Swihart BOS 26 38 Brian McCann ATL 35 39 Alex Avila ARI 32 40 Russell Martin LAD 36 41 Matt Wieters STL 32 42 Austin Wynns BAL 28 43 Travis d’Arnaud NYM 30 44 Manny Pina MIL 31 45 Max Stassi HOU 28 46 Chris Herrmann OAK 31 47 Roberto Perez CLE 30 48 James McCann CWS 28 49 Josh Phegley OAK 31 50 Sean Murphy OAK 24 51 Meibrys Viloria KC 22 We hoped you liked reading 2019 Catcher Rankings by Paul Sporer! Please support FanGraphs by becoming a member. We publish thousands of articles a year, host multiple podcasts, and have an ever growing database of baseball stats. FanGraphs does not have a paywall. With your membership, we can continue to offer the content you've come to rely on and add to our unique baseball coverage. Support FanGraphs