Rotographs Rankings March Update – Catchers
We are doing our March ranking updates. You can follow each position here:
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. We can also be reached via Twitter:
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. The chart is sortable. If a ranker didn’t rank someone that the others did, he was given that ranker’s last rank +1.
Key:
- AVG– just the average of the seven ranking sets
- AVG– the average minus the high and low rankings
- SPLIT– the difference between the high and low rankings

PLAYER | Jeff | Zach | Dan | Mike | Brad | Paul S | Paul K | Justin | AVG | Adj. AVG | Split | |
1 | Buster Posey | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0 |
2 | Kyle Schwarber | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1 |
3 | Brian McCann | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3 |
4 | Jonathan Lucroy | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4 |
5 | Salvador Perez | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 6 |
6 | Russell Martin | 6 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 6 |
7 | Travis d’Arnaud | 17 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 13 |
8 | Stephen Vogt | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 9.9 | 8.8 | 10 |
9 | Yasmani Grandal | 14 | 16 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 9 |
10 | Yan Gomes | 10 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 12.0 | 11.7 | 6 |
11 | Matt Wieters | 20 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 9 | 16 | 9 | 12.0 | 11.7 | 14 |
12 | Devin Mesoraco | 18 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 13.3 | 13.2 | 11 |
13 | Derek Norris | 15 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 15 | 13.3 | 13.7 | 10 |
14 | J.T. Realmuto | 11 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 19 | 16 | 20 | 11 | 13.6 | 13.2 | 10 |
15 | Francisco Cervelli | 12 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 13.8 | 13.5 | 5 |
16 | Nick Hundley | 7 | 18 | 21 | 19 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 14 | 14.8 | 15.0 | 14 |
17 | Welington Castillo | 21 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 9 |
18 | Blake Swihart | 24 | 9 | 20 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 21 | 16 | 16.5 | 16.5 | 15 |
19 | Wilson Ramos | 13 | 19 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 18.1 | 18.5 | 8 |
20 | Yadier Molina | 9 | 26 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 19 | 14 | 21 | 18.6 | 19.0 | 17 |
21 | Miguel Montero | 19 | 20 | 18 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 15 | 20 | 19.5 | 19.8 | 7 |
22 | A.J. Pierzynski | 23 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 29 | 23 | 23 | 14 | 22.8 | 23.2 | 15 |
23 | Robinson Chirinos | 16 | 21 | 33 | 21 | 20 | 34 | 22 | 23 | 23.8 | 23.3 | 18 |
24 | Jason Castro | 22 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 30 | 27 | 24 | 22 | 24.9 | 24.5 | 8 |
25 | Dioner Navarro | 26 | 23 | 24 | 28 | 23 | 28 | 25 | 24 | 25.1 | 25.0 | 5 |
26 | James McCann | 27 | 30 | 22 | 23 | 26 | 25 | 29 | 25 | 25.9 | 25.8 | 8 |
27 | JR Murphy | 30 | 24 | 26 | 37 | 18 | 24 | 32 | 28 | 27.4 | 27.3 | 19 |
28 | Chris Iannetta | 28 | 29 | 27 | 26 | 28 | 26 | 30 | 29 | 27.9 | 27.8 | 4 |
29 | Hank Conger | 37 | 28 | 31 | 33 | 25 | 32 | 31 | 27 | 30.5 | 30.3 | 12 |
30 | Cameron Rupp | 34 | 31 | 39 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 38 | 26 | 30.5 | 30.5 | 17 |
31 | Carlos Perez | 25 | 32 | 34 | 31 | 34 | 39 | 28 | 31 | 31.8 | 31.7 | 14 |
32 | Kurt Suzuki | 29 | 36 | 30 | 29 | 38 | 45 | 27 | 40 | 34.3 | 33.7 | 18 |
33 | Josh Phegley | 39 | 33 | 28 | 32 | 31 | 37 | 39 | 36 | 34.4 | 34.7 | 11 |
34 | Alex Avila | 31 | 27 | 42 | 38 | 38 | 33 | 33 | 35 | 34.6 | 34.7 | 15 |
35 | Caleb Joseph | 43 | 34 | 29 | 39 | 38 | 29 | 35 | 30 | 34.6 | 34.2 | 14 |
36 | Jarrod Saltalamacchia | 33 | 35 | 37 | 41 | 32 | 42 | 34 | 34 | 36.0 | 35.7 | 10 |
37 | Carlos Ruiz | 36 | 51 | 32 | 35 | 38 | 52 | 26 | 41 | 38.9 | 38.8 | 26 |
38 | Tyler Flowers | 48 | 40 | 46 | 36 | 38 | 30 | 36 | 38 | 39.0 | 39.0 | 18 |
39 | Gary Sanchez | 32 | 50 | 35 | 46 | 35 | 35 | 46 | 37 | 39.5 | 39.0 | 18 |
40 | Andrew Susac | 41 | 49 | 40 | 45 | 36 | 36 | 37 | 33 | 39.6 | 39.2 | 16 |
can we get an overall player rankings list. The lists by position are nice, but I want to know where you guys would draft these players overall.
Full disclosure: I find top 200/300 lists entirely useless. After about 60 picks (5 rds in a 12-tm… pick-75 in 15-teamers) you should be focused on team construction and not just running down a best available list. However, my experience isn’t everyone else’s and so I’ll probably put together a solid top-200 for y’all v. soon.
I agree. As far as roster construction, do you have a certain positional order you follow during draft? How soon do you dive into starting pitching?