As we make our way toward the All-Star Game, we thought it would be prudent to start our midseason rankings. Every few days, you’ll see a new set of position rankings, starting with catcher, today.
One thing it is important to remember when creating or viewing rankings: these rankings are in order of production from this point until the end of the season. No matter how bad the player may have hurt you already, this is where we believe he stands for the rest of the season.
Separate rankings have been done by Ray, Jason (jumperjah) and myself, and then averaged together to get a group ranking, though you can see each of our individual rankings in the chart below as well.
Rank | Player | Ray | Jason | Seth | Average |
1 | Joe Mauer | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2 | Victor Martinez | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3 | Brian McCann | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
4 | Miguel Montero | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4.67 |
T-5 | Mike Napoli | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5.67 |
T-5 | Jorge Posada | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5.67 |
7 | Carlos Santana | 6 | 5 | 8 | 6.33 |
8 | Kurt Suzuki | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7.67 |
9 | Buster Posey | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9.67 |
10 | Geovony Soto | 10 | 10 | 13 | 11 |
11 | Miguel Olivo | 14 | 13 | 10 | 12.33 |
12 | John Buck | 12 | 11 | 15 | 12.67 |
13 | Ryan Doumit | 9 | 18 | 12 | 13 |
14 | Matt Wieters | 18 | 12 | 11 | 13.67 |
15 | Yadier Molina | 13 | 15 | 14 | 14 |
16 | Rod Barajas | 20 | 14 | 16 | 16.67 |
17 | Russell Martin | 17 | 16 | 18 | 17 |
18 | Nick Hundley | 19 | 19 | NR | 18.67 |
19 | Carlos Ruiz | 15 | NR | NR | 19 |
T-20 | A.J. Pierzynski | NR | 20 | 17 | 19.33 |
T-20 | Ronny Paulino | NR | 17 | 20 | 19.33 |
T-20 | Jonathan Lucroy | 16 | NR | NR | 19.33 |
23 | John Jaso | NR | NR | 19 | 20.33 |
It was an interesting group to rank, and not particularly easy as it got fairly ugly fairly fast. One big discrepancy came with ranking Matt Wieters, which should be of no surprise. It more or less comes down to the odds of him finally breaking through. Interesting as well was how different the three of us came down on Ryan Doumit, though considering his injury-riddled past maybe this is less surprising.
Feel free to comment on whom you think we were too high on and too low on, I have no doubt this should cause some conversation.