2026 Catcher Preview! Rankings, Strategy, Draft Prep Guide (2/5 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Catcher is the best it's ever been (2:30)! ... What is our catcher strategy in one-catcher leagues vs. two-catcher leagues (9:13)? ... Let's get into catcher ADP, starting with Cal Raleigh (19:30). ... William Contereas should bounce back if healthy (28:03). ... Shea Langeliers could regress a little bit (31:28). ... EVERYBODY LOVES BEN RICE (36:35). ... Why does Hunter Goodman feel underappreciated (40:49)? ... There's a lot to like with Agustin Ramirez (46:30). ... Salvador Perez is getting older but there are no signs of slowing down (49:52). ... Can Will Smith maintain his gains (55:15)? ... Drake Baldwin should play quite a bit with Sean Murphy out (58:53). ... Let's talk sleepers, breakouts and busts at catcher (1:01:40). ... We wrap up with the rest of catcher ADP (1:21:07).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. |
| 0:04.7 | And first pitch, watching deep left field. |
| 0:08.9 | This is why the one. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome off. |
| 0:11.3 | Got a fantasy question? |
| 0:12.7 | Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. |
| 0:16.2 | Get ready to win your league. |
| 0:18.5 | Where fantasy becomes reality. |
| 0:21.6 | Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. |
| 0:23.6 | It's time for position previews. |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Thursday, February 5th. |
| 0:30.6 | I am Frank Stamphle, joined by Scott White and Chris Towers to down the show. |
| 0:34.6 | We have our 2026 catcher Preview, What You Can Expect, |
| 0:39.7 | an overview of the position, strategy, deep dives on specific players. We've got sleepers, |
| 0:45.0 | breakouts, busts, our favorites to draft, ADP analysis, all that fun stuff, everything in |
| 0:51.4 | between. Let's start at the very top, a macro look at catcher. |
| 0:57.0 | Historic season from Cal Raleigh last year, the best ever by a catcher. We had four |
| 1:02.9 | catchers provide $20 plus in 12-team Roto category leagues. That was the same number as |
| 1:09.7 | 2024. We had four catchers provide |
| 1:12.3 | 400 plus fantasy points on CBS last season with Raleigh all the way up at 622, which is pretty |
| 1:18.9 | insane. We only had three of those, by the way, with 400 plus in 2024. Scott, we have talked |
| 1:24.7 | about this a lot this offseason, but when you consider this position has an MVP candidate, |
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