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Pedro Pages – C, STL: 3% rostered
(POWER UPSIDE, STARTING JOB)
Pages is the starting catcher in St. Louis for a month with Ivan Herrera sidelines. Pages hasn’t been so bad himself, hitting 10-for-34 (.294) with a home run and seven RBI. If you’re in a two-catcher format, he makes for a solid add, as does Carlos Narvaez – C, BOS (1% rostered), who is the starting catcher in Boston now. Narvaez is more of a defensive catcher, but he has just an 11% swinging strike rate to start the season with a 12% walk rate, 78% contact rate, and 9.5% barrel rate. It’s early for most of those stats, but the point is simply that he has been average as a hitter and will play most days in Boston in the immediate future. As will Dillon Dingler – C, DET (5% rostered) in Detroit with Jake Rogers hurt. Dingler has gotten off to the best start of the group, going 12-for-31 (.387) with two home runs and eight RBI, and he was a top prospect in the Detroit system, so he’s worth a shot as well in case any of these early gains stick. You could also gamble on Henry Davis – C, PIT (0% rostered), who has started two games since being promoted with Joey Bart on the IL. Davis was slashing .281/.343/.375 with three steals and two RBI in 35 plate appearances in Triple-A, so if you wanted to gamble on his prospect pedigree, that’s fine.
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