Catcher is another "easy" position in this years' draft because there are very clear tiers. There's Joe Mauer by himself, then a nice little pack of Carlos Santana, Buster Posey, Brian McCann and Victor Martinez. Tier three has some guys with either obvious warts or limited ceilings like Mike Napoli and Geovany Soto. After those guys the talent really levels off, and you can easily wait until the end of your draft to take one of these guys. BAP is not a bad strategy to use here even if you don't feel comfortable using it for your entire draft. Remember as you read this article that "plus" in a category is really mitigated by the limitations of the position, and while you can certainly make up some ground contributors here won't be able to make nearly of an impact as say, an outfielder.
Home runs / RBIs:
Chris Iannetta, COL
John Buck, FLA
Stolen Bases:
Yadier Molina, STL
Miguel Olivo, SB
Russell Martin, NYY
Runs:
Due to the fact that most catchers hit 8th or 9th there aren't a lot of opportunities to score runs here. The best you can hope for outside of the upper tiered talent is 55-60 runs scored, so I recommend that you look elsewhere for help in that category.
AVG:
Carloz Ruiz, PHI
Yadier Molina, STL
No one's going to draft two catchers in a standard league, so you should end up with one of the top 10-12 without trying. You really shouldn't need to touch any of these players, but it's good to have a reference guide to prevent panicking. You don't want to stare at these stats for too long though, so let's move on as quickly as possible...Outfielders next!
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