Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball · The Athletic
2026 Catcher Preview
January 20, 2026·1 hr 25 min·5 clips
Cal Raleigh was the third-best player in fantasy baseball last year—can a catcher really repeat a 60-homer season?
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A practical catcher market read built around volume, age, and projection gaps.
The piece frames the catcher pool as a simple market problem: who still supplies usable volume, and where the position starts to leak value. Salvador Perez sits at the center of that argument because the power and RBI are still strong, he has 100 RBI in two straight years, and…
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