2012 Fantasy Baseball: Catcher Tiers

Your fantasy baseball draft(s) are right around the corner.  Here’s my attempt at separating 20 catchers into five tiers. Tiers are very subjective and one player could easily be considered just good enough or just bad enough to be in the next higher or lower tier. Let me know what you think and check out my first basemen tiers, second basemen tiers, shortstop tiers, and third basemen tiers. Tier 1: Carlos Santana, Mike Napoli, Brian McCann, Buster Posey   Napoli was a fairly big surprise in his first season in Texas.  He had career highs in AVG (.320), HR (30) and RBI (75). Tier 2: Alex Avila, Joe Mauer, Matt Wieters, Miguel Montero Avila shouldn’t have a problem being full time catcher for the Tigers in 2012.  His numbers rivaled those of teammate Victor Martinez, and that’s saying a lot. Tier 3: J.P. Arencibia, Yadier Molina, Russell Martin, Geovany Soto Just over 1/4 of Arencibia’s hits were home runs in 2011 (24/97).  Soto has been inconsistent so far in his career but h...