Catcher Preview (02/13 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
CBS Sports
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Fantasy managers are not reaching for catchers, so you can get a great one at a relative discount. We start with an overview of the position and talk about the values of Gary Sanchez and J.T. Realmuto (3:00). Is Catcher deeper than it used to be (5:30)? Who is our #1 player at the position (10:40) and how much of a dropoff is there with the next tier (14:00)? ... Getting into some draft strategy (16:00) and debating the value of getting an elite catcher (19:30). You can have a huge edge at the position, but waiting isn't a bad idea either. Which strategy do we prefer? Also, are there are any prospects worth stashing (22:40)? ... Sleepers (25:18) including a couple of guys named Murphy and even Buster Posey, breakouts (30:50) including Francisco Mejia and Carson Kelly and busts (37:24) including potentially the guy being drafted sixth overall at the position. We also go through ADP (46:35) and talk about a bunch of players like Willson Contreras, Salvador Perez, Christian Vazquez, Omar Narvaez, Yadier Molina and more ... Email us at fantasybaseball@cbsi.com
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| 0:51.2 | Well fantasy because reality. |
| 0:54.4 | Now here's Adam Scott, she's Ben Chris. |
| 0:57.4 | Time for our 2020 catcher preview. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm going to give you some names. |
| 1:03.2 | Last year these players finished his top 12 catchers and points leagues and a lot of them were top 12 in roto as well. |
| 1:09.7 | Christian Vazquez, he was actually top five. |
| 1:12.2 | So as Mitch Garver, Omar Nervias, James McCann, Robinson Cherinos, and Roberto Perez. |
| 1:18.3 | There were all top 12 catchers in points leagues. |
| 1:21.4 | It was a wacky crazy position. |
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