Of course, it’s more complicated than that in reality because catching is sucha unique position. Some players don’t handle the physical demands over a full season very well. Sometimes teams move players off the position to allow promising bats to develop more quickly - that was the Pirates’ rationale with Neil Walker and so far it has worked as planned.

Also, how can Kozma be rated 5th, when he has played…2 professional games….in the gulf coast league?

I just don’t see how you rank Hu below Kozma, who at the time he wrote it hadn’t had a major league AB.

Adam’s thirdbase list though, I agree with completely. I’m not a total jerk.

Also, have they announced the Cardinals’ International signings for this year? I heard they were spending more on International players this year, I’m interested to see who they signed.

One thing I’ll say about the “average hitter at each position” approach is that it’s a deeply flawed way to evaluate offensive standards at each position. If you do what Kevin did and compare shortstops and second basemen, for example, you might be tempted to think of the positions as having equal standards.
But while most of those elite-hitting shortstops could move to second base if they needed to, you can’t necessarily claim the reverse is true with regard to elite-hitting second basemen moving to shortstop. Could you imagine a managerpenciling in Jeff Kent at shortstop?
So the population of good bats available to play second base is going to be considerably greater than the population of good bats avilable to play shortstop… regardless of what the averages are at each position.

I wonder what the clubhouse atmosphere is like between Mather and Ankiel and Stavinoha?