Top Catcher Prospects to Target in 2023! (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
CBS Sports
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The catcher Renaissance is here. |
| 0:05.0 | Let's talk top prospects for 2023 next on Fantasy Baseball to day in five. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome into MBTN5 to date is Saturday, October 22nd. |
| 0:15.4 | I am Frank Sample joined by The Welsh. |
| 0:17.8 | Make sure you follow him on Twitter at is it The Welsh? |
| 0:20.8 | You bet your sweet willy it is. |
| 0:22.2 | Let's start off with the catcher prospects to know for next season. |
| 0:25.4 | These are the catcher prospects that are closest to contributing at the major league level |
| 0:29.3 | and will start off with Francisco Alvarez of the Metz who did just have offseason ankle surgery |
| 0:35.1 | should be good to start next season. |
| 0:37.4 | Well, do you think that he will be with the Metz at the start of next season? |
| 0:40.6 | I do. I think the idea of him being a DH is firmly in their mind. |
| 0:46.4 | So we will reap the benefits of him being a catcher. |
| 0:49.0 | I think he will probably primarily play more DH because they want that bat to be in the line up |
| 0:54.6 | once he recovers from all the injury, ended up hitting 27 homeers last year, hitting 260 |
| 1:00.6 | at 3.74 batting average, something that this team can use in their line up plus there's |
| 1:04.9 | some extra pick compensation that's involved in it. |
| 1:07.4 | So I think he makes all the sense in the world. |
| 1:09.5 | You can be a second or even a third tier catcher for this team. |
| 1:12.5 | He could be a occasional catcher while DHing that has value with pick compensation. |
| 1:18.1 | I think you can bank on Alvarez breaking camp. |
| 1:20.3 | All right. |
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