Rotographs Rankings First Run – Catchers

Some of this is being repeated from the Primer piece that went up this morning. 

We’re bringing them to you earlier this year, but that also means that they’re far from set in stone so take that into consideration as you peruse them. There are still strong arms on the free agent market, let alone all the moving and shaking that happens once players start reporting to camp.

• Outfielder (Jan. 18)
• Starting Pitcher (Jan. 20)
• Shortstop (Jan. 22)
• First Base (Jan. 25)
• Catcher (Jan. 26-today)
• Second Base (Jan. 27)
• Third Base (Jan. 28)
• DH (Jan. 29)
• Reliever (Jan. 29 courtesy of the Bullpen Report crew)

We’re using Yahoo! eligibility requirements which is 5 starts or 10 appearances. These rankings assume the standard 5×5 categories and a re-draft league.  If we forgot someone, please let us know in the comments and we’ll make sure he’s added for the updates. If you have questions for a specific ranker on something he did, let us know in the comments.

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• Paul Sporer
• Jeff Zimmerman
• Zach Sanders
• Mike Podhorzer
• Dan Schwartz
• Brad Johnson
• Paul Kastava

There will be differences, sharp differences, within the rankings. The rankers have different philosophies when it comes to ranking, some of which you’re no doubt familiar with through previous iterations. Of course the idea that we’d all think the same would be silly because then what would be the point of including multiple rankers?!

Think someone should be higher or lower? Make a case. Let us know why you think that. Like I said, it’s early. Things are going to change.

The chart is sortable and by default it’s sorted by AVG. If a ranker didn’t rank someone that the others did, he was given that ranker’s last rank +1. That would be 38 for Zach, 36 for Mike, 38 for Brad, 53 for me, and 46 for Paul K. Everyone in the top 50 (let’s be honest, we probably only needed a top 30 here) were on the lists of Jeff and Dan so they don’t have any +1s. They are indicated in red on the chart.

I was the only one to rank to Tom Murphy from Colorado and I slotted him 38th. Just wanted to mention that.

Key:

• AVG– just the average of the seven ranking sets
• Adj. AVG– the average minus the high and low rankings
• SPLIT– the difference between the high and low rankings

Catchers – January Edition

	PLAYER	Jeff	Zach	Dan	Mike	Brad	Paul S	Paul K	AVG	Adj. AVG	Split
1	Buster Posey	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1.0	1.0	0
2	Kyle Schwarber	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2.1	2.0	1
3	Brian McCann	3	4	3	3	6	4	3	3.7	3.4	3
4	Jonathan Lucroy	5	5	5	4	5	2	5	4.4	4.8	3
5	Russell Martin	6	3	6	5	3	7	8	5.4	5.4	5
6	Salvador Perez	4	7	4	6	10	6	4	5.9	5.4	6
7	Travis d’Arnaud	17	8	10	7	4	5	6	8.1	7.2	13
8	Stephen Vogt	8	6	7	9	9	11	9	8.4	8.4	5
9	Yan Gomes	10	9	9	11	16	12	13	11.4	11.0	7
10	Yasmani Grandal	14	15	16	12	7	8	10	11.7	11.8	9
11	Devin Mesoraco	18	12	12	10	8	13	11	12.0	11.6	10
12	Francisco Cervelli	12	13	13	14	12	14	12	12.9	12.8	2
13	Nick Hundley	7	17	11	20	14	18	7	13.4	13.4	13
14	Derek Norris	15	10	17	15	11	10	17	13.6	13.6	7
15	Matt Wieters	20	19	15	8	17	9	16	14.9	15.2	12
16	Yadier Molina	9	18	8	21	24	19	14	16.1	16.2	16
17	Wilson Ramos	13	11	14	16	21	21	19	16.4	16.6	10
18	J.T. Realmuto	11	14	18	17	19	16	20	16.4	16.8	9
19	Welington Castillo	21	20	21	13	15	17	18	17.9	18.2	8
20	Blake Swihart	24	16	23	19	13	15	21	18.7	18.8	11
21	Miguel Montero	19	22	19	18	22	20	15	19.3	19.6	7
22	Robinson Chirinos	16	23	20	24	20	34	22	22.7	21.8	18
23	A.J. Pierzynski	23	21	24	23	29	23	23	23.7	23.2	8
24	Jason Castro	22	28	22	22	30	26	24	24.9	24.4	8
25	JR Murphy	30	24	25	25	18	24	32	25.4	25.6	14
26	Dioner Navarro	26	25	27	27	23	27	25	25.7	26.0	4
27	James McCann	27	26	28	26	26	25	29	26.7	26.6	4
28	Chris Iannetta	28	26	29	28	28	33	30	28.9	28.6	7
29	Carlos Perez	25	27	26	29	34	39	28	29.7	28.8	14
30	Cameron Rupp	34	29	31	31	27	22	38	30.3	30.4	16
31	Jarrod Saltalamacchia	33	31	30	30	32	42	34	33.1	32.0	12
32	Hank Conger	37	36	43	33	25	31	31	33.7	33.6	18
33	Alex Avila	31	38	32	34	38	32	33	34.0	33.8	7
34	Kurt Suzuki	29	32	42	35	38	45	27	35.4	35.2	18
35	Josh Phegley	39	34	33	36	31	37	39	35.6	35.8	8
36	Caleb Joseph	43	35	36	36	38	28	35	35.9	36.0	15
37	Curt Casali	35	30	41	36	38	30	42	36.0	36.0	12
38	Carlos Ruiz	36	33	40	32	38	52	26	36.7	35.8	26
39	Andrew Susac	41	38	34	36	36	36	37	36.9	36.6	7
40	Gary Sanchez	32	38	39	36	35	35	46	37.3	36.6	14
41	Tyler Flowers	48	38	37	36	38	29	36	37.4	37.0	19
42	Kevin Plawecki	40	37	35	36	38	44	41	38.7	38.4	9
43	Peter O’Brien	38	38	38	36	37	47	46	40.0	39.4	11
44	Dustin Garneau	42	38	44	36	38	53	44	42.1	41.2	17
45	Austin Hedges	45	38	46	36	38	53	40	42.3	41.4	17
46	A.J. Ellis	46	38	50	36	38	46	45	42.7	42.6	14
47	Geovany Soto	49	38	51	36	38	41	46	42.7	42.4	15
48	Michael McKenry	47	38	45	36	38	53	43	42.9	42.2	17
49	Chris Gimenez	44	38	49	36	38	53	46	43.4	43.0	17
50	Max Stassi	53	38	47	36	38	49	46	43.9	43.6	17