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Click here to follow Roto Arcade on Facebook<\/a>. Fun is promised for all. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>You’re using catchers this year, right? Okay, let’s price them. Assume a 5×5 format, as always (shame on the founding fathers for ignoring runs scored), and don’t stress too much on any singular dollar value here – the important thing is noting how the players relate to one another.<\/p>\n $25\tJoe Mauer<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> When they ask Martinez what position he plays, he should say "hitter." But he’s going to carry catcher eligibility for a while, no matter what eventually happens to his position.<\/p>\n $17\tJorge Posada<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> The Orioles are a train wreck, but it’s not the kid’s fault. Let’s hope he sees a team over .500 before too long; catching and losing is an unfair burden for anyone. … Molina probably looks like 4-5 guys on your weekend softball team. You want players like this in your bunker. … Suzuki’s counting stats get a boost from the heavy workload the A’s throw his way. Let’s just hope they don’t break him down early in his career. <\/a><\/p>\n $12\tRussell Martin<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> Yadier Molina is another backstop getting run into the ground, but I’m sure the genius knows what he’s doing. Molina played six days in a row (one of the games was 20 flipping innings) before getting Tuesday off. … There’s no universal right answer with the Santanas and the Poseys; it depends on the scope of your league, the value of your bench spots, how competitive the waiver wire is, etc. Gotta take it on a case-by-case basis. … Montero’s just a shot in the dark; I loved him in March, like we all did. <\/p>\n $6\tIvan Rodriguez<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> I’m not going to totally bury Clement yet because if he’s able to snap out of this funk he immediately becomes uber-valuable as a faux-catcher. … There’s always a stat-defense for Iannetta, or an excuse, but I’ll be surprised if he’s able to get anything past a time share with Olivo this summer.<\/p>\n $3\tRod Barajas<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> I think Hundley could handle a regular catching gig (at least for our stat-grab purposes) but it’s not happening yet. … Anyone else sick of waiting on Salty? . . . Baker is what he is, a useful part-timer but in a mixed league where just one catcher goes to post, you need to be above him on the list. … A few people got excited when Snyder fell into a full-time gig, but I don’t see it. Go look at those career totals again.<\/p>\n $1\tKelly Shoppach<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> I refuse to rank Taylor Teagarden<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> until he actually gets a hit. Your witness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Click here to follow Roto Arcade on Facebook. Fun is promised for all. You’re using catchers this year, right? Okay, let’s price them. Assume a 5×5 format, as always (shame on the founding fathers for ignoring runs scored), and don’t stress too much on any singular dollar value here – the important thing is noting how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
$22\tVictor Martinez<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$21\tBrian McCann<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
$16\tMatt Wieters<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$15\tKurt Suzuki<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$14\tBengie Molina<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$13\tGeovany Soto<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
$11\tRyan Doumit<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$10\tYadier Molina<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$10\tMiguel Montero<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$9\tMiguel Olivo<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$8\tMike Napoli<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$8\tCarlos Santana<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$8\tA.J. Pierzynski<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
$5\tJeff Clement<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$4 Chris Iannetta<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$4\tJohn Baker<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$4\tBuster Posey<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
$3\tRamon Hernandez<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$3\tCarlos Ruiz<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$2\tJarrod Saltalamacchia<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$2\tChris Snyder<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$2\tRonny Paulino<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$2\tNick Hundley<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
$1\tJohn Buck<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$1\tJeff Mathis<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$1\tJason Varitek<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$1\tJason Kendall<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$1\tJ.R. Towles<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$1\tDioner Navarro<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$0\tRob Johnson<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$0\tGregg Zaun<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span>
$0\tGerald Laird<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n