With Salvador Perez going down, there are barely any catchers worth paying for at all. All I can see is the safe and good production of Realmuto and the upside of Sanchez. Many people, especially Ariel Cohen on FG, seem to think it is very important to give a positional adjustment to catcher values. Other than the top two, in a one-catcher league, I do not see any point in giving one at all. There just isn't much of a difference between the best you can get and the worst.
For example, in my main league, it is one-catcher, 5x5 (standard), and 16-teams (roto). Realmuto and Sanchez are being kept (already under contract). I doubt anyone else is (Mejia is being kept as a rookie, free guy, but he's relatively irrelevant for these purposes anyway). Hitter inflation is 25% based on my keeper guesses for all teams, overall inflation is 16.8% (most of the great pitcher contracts expired last year). According to my program, the remaining catchers who are likely to be taken (14, I assume; I doubt anyone goes for two catchers this year) are valued between $6 (uninflated)/$7 (inflated) (Grandal) and -$3 (both inflated and uninflated) (a group from #11-16; Ramos, Gomes, Flowers, Garver, Suzuki, Barnhardt; Lucroy at -$4 might also be taken). At this point, what is the point in over-paying for Grandal, Molina, Contreras, or Posey (the only ones above $0), when you aren't really getting much more than the guys you can get for $1 at the end? I guess, I could go to $10 for Grandal given that I have to overpay by $4 for the negative three guys, but Grandal will go for far more than that, I am sure. Hell, he could even be kept for $11, although that would mean letting either an $11 Tim Anderson or a $12 Eddie Rosario go, so I am guessing not.
What does the pen think? Is it worth paying for catchers this year outside of Realmuto and Sanchez?
For example, in my main league, it is one-catcher, 5x5 (standard), and 16-teams (roto). Realmuto and Sanchez are being kept (already under contract). I doubt anyone else is (Mejia is being kept as a rookie, free guy, but he's relatively irrelevant for these purposes anyway). Hitter inflation is 25% based on my keeper guesses for all teams, overall inflation is 16.8% (most of the great pitcher contracts expired last year). According to my program, the remaining catchers who are likely to be taken (14, I assume; I doubt anyone goes for two catchers this year) are valued between $6 (uninflated)/$7 (inflated) (Grandal) and -$3 (both inflated and uninflated) (a group from #11-16; Ramos, Gomes, Flowers, Garver, Suzuki, Barnhardt; Lucroy at -$4 might also be taken). At this point, what is the point in over-paying for Grandal, Molina, Contreras, or Posey (the only ones above $0), when you aren't really getting much more than the guys you can get for $1 at the end? I guess, I could go to $10 for Grandal given that I have to overpay by $4 for the negative three guys, but Grandal will go for far more than that, I am sure. Hell, he could even be kept for $11, although that would mean letting either an $11 Tim Anderson or a $12 Eddie Rosario go, so I am guessing not.
What does the pen think? Is it worth paying for catchers this year outside of Realmuto and Sanchez?
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