It's time to kick off the Shuffle Up series for fantasy baseball, the in-season version. What you see below is how I would arrange the catcher position if I were entering a new draft today. Use it to evaluate your team, consider pickups and drops, grade trade offers — it's up to you.
. According to Baseball Savant data, Murphy's average should be 32 points higher and his slugging percentage should be 69 points higher. As is, Murphy leads the position in home runs and RBI, and he's second in runs scored. And as you'd expect from the batted-ball data, he's tops in barrel rate. Being tied to the NL's most reliable lineup doesn't hurt, either . . .
And speaking of walk/strikeout rates, look at Smith with 14 walks against six strikeouts. That’s just absurd. Obviously, he’s missed some time with the concussion, though he started nine straight games prior to Monday. He still has the upside to be C1 the rest of the way . . . Varsho is getting the playing time we expected, with 33 outfield starts and no work behind the plate. We always love catcher-eligibles who aren’t tasked to catch.
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