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One important part of The Fantasy Baseball Guide was the Position Pages section. These contained the Draft at a Glance Cheat Sheets for each position and Big Winners and Big Losers chart for each position the year before. We’ll come back to those items later. Today we’re featuring the Historical Top 20 and Top 60 charts.
Players with 20 games or more the year before at the position are listed in descending order by their total winnings the past three years. The top five or top ten for each year are shaded in blue, so you can see what sort of variation there is.
The shading tells us that only J.T. Realmuto was a Top 5 catcher each of the past three years. It also demonstrates that three catchers were Top 5 for the first time last year.
That’s a little more than 20 by the way.
Looking at these lists is another way of getting a feel for the depth of the position. At the end of these charts, well past the pay wall, there will be a link for paid subscribers to access the full lists, which include all players who have a positive value for the last three years. There are 38 such catchers.
Players only have a price if they had more than 50 at bats in the year, which reduces the impact of the opportunity costs that’s built into my pricing system.
At first base, Freddie Freeman is the only player to be Top 5 each of the last three years, though Paul Goldschmidt and Vladimir Guerrero Jr have ranked for the last two.
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