Future Shock: Positional Rankings - Catcher by Kevin Goldstein

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Future Redbirds found this 7/18/2007 on www.baseballprospectus.com [flag]
Kevin kicks off a position-by-position trip around the minor leagues with a look at future backstops. [link]

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Whaddya know, Joe?
Published 7/18/2007 by erik at Future Redbirds

Stop the hate!
Published 7/18/2007 by Jeff <info@brewcrewball.com> at Brew Crew Ball: Front Page Posts
Kevin Goldstein writes today about the best future catchers. (It's a free article.) As he points out, it's a thin crop, as it always seems to be. (Seriously, can you remember there even being a ton of uber-prospect catchers?) No surprise there--that's why Gary Bennett still has a job. ...

going going . . . . .gone?
Published 7/19/2007 by lboros at Viva El Birdos: Front Page Posts
... alrighty, then --- goodbye to the manager and the ace pitcher. is that any way way to start things off the day after a shutout win? let's end this post where it began, on a small happy note: BP's kevin goldstein likes bryan anderson a lot. he rates the cardinal farmhand as the 2d-best catching prospect in baseball: ...

Uggggghhhh!
Published 7/20/2007 by whiteyball at Whiteyball
... Baseball Prospectus rated the Cardinals’ Bryan Anderson as the second best catching prospect in baseball.  Here is what Kevin Goldstein has to say:    Anderson had a very good year in 2006, batting .302/.377/.417 in his Midwest League full-season debut, but nobody saw him as the kind of talent that would be ready for a two-level jump to the Texas League. As it turned out, not only was he ready, but he’s now ranked second in the circuit’s batting race. Defensively, Anderson is neither plus nor deficient in any area, but it’s his bat that’ll keep getting him promoted. That said, Anderson’s primary value as a hitter comes from his batting average. He’s an aggressive, contact-oriented hitter who attacks balls early, with a slicing swing that isn’t designed much for power or power potential. Anderson is a very good prospect doing very well while bein ...

Analyzing The Kenny Lofton/Max Ramirez Deal
Published 7/27/2007 by Joey Matschulat at Baseball Time in Arlington
... Baseball Prospectus’s Kevin Goldstein ranked Ramirez as baseball’s 7th best catching prospect in his “Future Shock” column on July 18th: ...