Tuesday, February 17, 2009

AL Top Catchers

Using Baseball Prospectus' Player Forecast Manager, here are the top 24 AL catchers. I have included just the dollar values calculated to take the focus from counting stats and put more on AVG.


If you question why a player is so low or so high, AVG is typically the reason.


PLAYERTEAM$$$
Mauer JoeMIN16.42
Wieters MattBAL15.32
Napoli MichaelLAA14.83
Clement JeffreySEA13.06
Martinez VictorCLE9.3
Inge BrandonDET8.83
Shoppach KellyCLE7.82
Saltalamacchia JarrodTEX7.52
Navarro Dioner TBA7.46
Laird GeraldDET6.99
Suzuki KurtOAK6.59
Pierzynski A.J.CHA6.18
Johjima KenjiSEA5.3
Posada JorgeNYA4.95
Buck JohnKCA4.25
Barajas RodTOR3.97
Varitek JasonBOS3.57
Olivo MiguelKCA3.4
Mathis JeffreyLAA2.5
Barrett MichaelTOR2.05
Bard JoshBOS2
Teagarden TaylorTEX1.59
Zaun GreggBAL1.14
Molina JoseNYA1

2 comments:

Doogie said...

Your value for Mauer seems low, particularly relative to your values for Napoli and Clement, and in light of your note that indicates you have given a higher weighting to AVG.

Anonymous said...

Doogie,

It is all AVG. PECOTA projects Mauers -9/66/5/.307 over 596 plate appearances.