Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Catcher letters for 2025 Drafts

We start the Shuffle Up series – My version of layered rankings – for the new Fantasy Baseball Draft season. The dollar values ​​that you see below are unscientific in nature, but reflect how I see the clusters of talent at Catcher. Use these levels as you like.

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Catcher overview

If you play in a one-catcher layout this year, this is probably a no-world, low-stress. If your competition requires more than one backstop, things become a bit complicated.

This is a fantasy position where defensive skills are crucial to check because it will add more than any other place here or detract from the playing time.

Let’s search the options and set you up with a 2025 plan.

Tier 1: The Big Tickets

• $ 26 William Contreras

• $ 23 Adley Rutschman

• $ 21 Salvador Pérez

• $ 20 Yainer Diaz

• $ 20 Cal Raleigh

• $ 19 Will Smith

• $ 18 Willson Contreras

Contreras is a perfect answer at Catcher, a player with a large volume that can contribute legitimate in all five categories, depending on how real those nine stolen base were a year ago. He also goes into his prime (age-27 season) and works in a Homer-friendly park. The Bewers likes to be DH Contreras when he needs a break from the hardships of defense, so he will probably be around 600 barriers again.

Rutschman had a surprising slump in the last two months and his oblique stripe was mainly lowered compared to his first two seasons. It is probably a blip and the new dimensions in Baltimore should help Rutschman if he touches right -handed. Last year’s drop to a .272 Babip probably explains part of the disappointing season of Rutschman. I am still happy to bet on the pedigree here and the depth of the Line -up.

What Pérez did in his age-34 season was too good to fell his walks, cut his strikeouts and won 158 games, although many of them were DH assignments after Vinnie Pasquantino was injured. The age gets a few dollars from the Pérez -Doel salary, but for the most part he has been remarkably sustainable during his career and the Line -Up from Kansas City has taken a step forward. His runs scored column is not as robust as you would expect, but Pérez should return another positive season with three categories.

Raleigh is an excellent source of power and an excellent defensive catcher, so his volume is safe and his imagination floor is sturdy. The surprising six steals could come or go – he showed no interest in that area before 2024. Seattle is a bad place to hit, so it is no surprise that Raleigh bumped his ups compared to 158 points. You have to manage the stroke average of your team if Raleigh is one of your early choices.

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Tier 2: Reasonable secondary options

• $ 14 JT RealMuto

• $ 13 Logan O’Hoppe

• $ 12 Shea Langeliers

• $ 12 Tyler Stephenson

• $ 11 Sean Murphy

If you are in favor of players of a contract year, you could concentrate on RealMuto, which must show something that his age-34 season is entering. His OPS+ was hardly above the League average in the last two seasons and his slugging percentage reached a new low of eight years. We also have to ask ourselves whether his steels have disappeared for good after three consecutive years of aggressive running, RealMuto last year was only 2-out-4 on the bases, through the 99 games he played. I will probably have market behavior the realmuto case decide-I may need a discount before I have the guts to select it.

Stephenson has an excellent command of the Slagzone, the problem is that his Batted-Ball profile is closer to the average. But he comes from a career-best 19 gays, Cincinnati is an excellent place to hit and a career year is possible to enter an age-2 season. The Reds have also built a deep set-up, one that has the potential to be a top 10 attack.

Tier 3: Talk them up, talk them down

• $ 10 Francisco Alvarez

• $ 9 austin wells

• $ 8 connor wong

• $ 8 Joey Bart

• $ 8 Gabriel Moreno

• $ 7 Ryan Jeffers

• $ 7 KEIBERT RUIZ

• $ 6 Iván Herrera

• $ 5 Bo Noylor

• $ 5 Patrick Bailey

Alvarez came in the Majors with a sterling attacking reputation and a lot of worries about his defense. Surprise – His defense has actually been reasonable, but his attack has not been a treat. Although he made a modest improvement of his plate discipline last year, his statistics of the slugs ball were mediocre and tumbled his slugging percentage to .403. It is still only an age-2-season on the road, so the story is far from written. But this is not someone I can approach proactively.

Bart’s breakout season was only 80 games, but one .265/.337/.462 Slash attracted our attention to a defense position. Perhaps it is a case of a post-hype sleeper that finally put things together, because Bart was a rated prospect for four years before it finally made it forever in the Majors. The pirates have a good depth behind Bart if he loses his way, but I believe in the Slagman I saw in the second half of 2024.

The approach of Moreno is different from most of his peers – while others often touch the seats and for a bad average, Moreno has a .280 career average, but has shown little power. His plus defense will keep him on the field and last year’s .353 OBP gives him a theoretical thing to rise in the line -up. I am curious if something could jump in his age-25 season.

Bailey earned his work with excellent defense, but after a strong first half he had a .170/.217/.216 collapse after the break. San Francisco Park has a way to convert well-hit airballs into routine-outs (although Bailey had a much higher average in the past year). Bailey can intervene C2 relevance in its first full season, but he cannot be seen as a certainty to hold the job.

Tier 4: bargain bin

• $ 4 Hunter Goodman

• $ 4 Alejandro Kirk

• $ 3 Jonah Heim

• $ 2 David Fry

• $ 2 Travis d’Arnaud

• $ 1 Freddy Fermin

• $ 1 elías díaz

• $ 1 Kyle Higashioka