Hello and welcome to episode 1461 of The Sleeper in the Buzz.

It is Friday, January 9th. I'm your host. I'm your host Paul Spore and join the Hello, welcome to episode 1461 of The Sleeper in the Buzz.

It is Friday, January 9th.

I'm your host Paul Spoor, joined this morning by Justin Mason.

Justin, we're back.

Two days in a row, how you doing?

Doing good.

Up for an early morning recording session and ready to talk some baseball.

I like being able to talk baseball a few times a week.

Me too, man. I am really geeked. I hope that came across yesterday, back in the saddle,

talking baseball with Justin. And we're talking catchers again. We got into the first three

tiers yesterday. Really fun tiers. Deep position. We basically gassed every guy on there.

But that's how deep that first part of catching is.

And there's a lot of guys I like here that we're going to talk about.

Obviously can't deep dive everyone because we would be doing five hours today,

especially on that tier eight.

Again, a reminder, we are following Justin's rankings, which you can find on the site right now.

All of our position rankings are up. Updates coming regularly. In fact, Justin put a catcher update out this morning. So you can get the latest and greatest as of January 9th with the updates. So let's dive back into it starting with Tier 4, the safe backstops. Alejandro Kirk, Yvonne Herrera, and Gabriel Moreno, former teammates there with the bookends of Kirk and Moreno and that Herrera in the middle. I want to start in the middle there because, and you did put this in your blurb about him, but he is expected to catch some. And I had actually missed that because in my chat, somebody was asking about him.

I was like, oh, you know, he's never going to catch this and that. And then somebody pointed me to the link that he is going to be catching. That's huge. But he doesn't have it right away. So he's one of these guys that we have to wait on. We've been there before. Ben Rice was like that, right? that right we had we didn't have Ben Rice Catcher right away right yeah so that's

kind of my lucid like an easy comp for him not what Ben Rice was like that, right? We didn't have Ben Rice catcher right away, right? Yeah.

So that's kind of my lucid, like an easy comp for him,

not one-to-one in town or anything, but that you're going to have to wait for it. How willing are you to do that with Yvonne Herrera? Because then you'd have to take three catchers or take zeros. you know, like, how do you maneuver that waiting for somebody like Yvonne Herrera to get catcher?

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