Two years ago, we had one of the best defensive catchers ever to strap on the tools of ignorance in the college game in C.J. Rodriguez. Even though the original plan to replace him was to put offensive stalwart Dom Keegan back there, thereby replacing runs saved with RBI, I wrote the following in last year’s Catchers positional preview:
Though losing both Rocker and Leiter is no picnic, it could be argued that the biggest potential downgrade from 2021 to 2022 is at catcher. This is not to slight the catchers on our current roster; rather, quite literally no college catcher was on the same planet as C.