Catcher Preview 2.0 (06/25 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
CBS Sports
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Is the catcher position really back? Seven of the Top-12 catchers in H2H leagues were waiver wire additions last season. Is that normal? What is Scott's typical catcher strategy in a one-catcher league vs. a two-catcher league (3:31). Has it changed at all in a 60-game season? ... The elite tier is filled with all but two players: JT Realmuto and Gary Sanchez (7:22). Is this a case of safety vs. upside? Would we rather have Realmuto in the fifth round or Sanchez in the seventh? ... Onto our favorite sleepers at the catcher position, why does Scott favor Danny Jansen (18:00)? How good can Sean Murphy be? Is Yadier Molina really a sleeper? ... Mitch Garver already broke out last season but Scott still likes him in 2020 (25:30). Can Omar Narvaez get even better in Milwaukee? ... When it comes to busts at the catcher position, Scott is worried about Carson Kelly's playing time (34:!2). Is the floor too low for Will Smith? Also, where did Christian Vazquez come from? ... Back to our ADP review, how do we rank Yasmani Grandal, Willson Contreras, and Mitch Garver (44:11)? Who's the best discount? ... Our next group of catchers involves Salvador Perez and WHY DOESN'T HE GET MORE LOVE (50:11)? Who do the guys prefer between Kelly, Vazquez, Narvaez, and Molina (53:30)? For the later-round guys, Sean Murphy is a favorite (58:22) along with Buster Posey and Francisco Mejia. ... Email us at fantasybaseball@cbsi.com.
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| 0:57.3 | Or is it? Welcome to Fantasy Baseball today Thursday June 25th and this is our catcher preview 2.0 |
| 1:03.6 | for the 60 game MLB season. Frank Stample joined by Scott White and Chris Towers and last season |
| 1:09.5 | seven of the top 12 catchers in head-to-head point leagues were waiver wire pickups. |
| 1:15.7 | That's not normal, is it, guys? No, definitely. I mean, I don't know. I guess if you think about it as |
| 1:23.5 | catcher, one has so many injuries. Two, the bar for relevance is just incredibly low. |
| 1:33.6 | I would actually not be that surprised if that was not a typical for catcher. It's sort of like |
| 1:41.9 | tight end in football where there's like three or four good ones. There's three or four players |
| 1:49.1 | who you would actually use at a different position maybe. Then there's basically you're just |
| 1:57.2 | hoping someone hits a home run or catches a touchdown in football. Yeah. I think that probably does |
| 2:04.9 | lend itself to a position that has a ton of year to year volatility and also just |
| 2:13.8 | your draft investments don't matter that much. Right. So fewer drafted unless, you know, if it's |
| 2:20.3 | a one catcher league, basically just the only number that are drafted are the number of teams that |
| 2:25.0 | are in the league because nobody's playing a catcher at a flex spot or at a different position. |
| 2:29.6 | So there's always in a one catcher league, I feel like there's always a surplus of usable catcher |
| 2:36.1 | talent out there. It may not be particularly good, but it's usable. And I think that's especially |
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