Chris Berset Now #7 Catcher in Rivals Power Rankings
I sent in a comment asking Kendal Rogers reasoning on his catcher power rankings following my weekend recap:
What will it take to get Chris Berset in your Position Power Rankings at Catcher? The guy is batting .405, .483 on base, .603 slugging, with 32 runs scored and 35 RBI. Not to mention his defense. The guy is a wall. He's also got 5 pick offs and a solid steals against percentage. He's leading the Big Ten in caught stealing with 17 while only allowing 20.It appears to pay off as Berset is now #7 in the Position Power Rankings (default link takes you to third basemen for some reason), which is a fair place. The Michigan homer in me wants to complain that the guys of head of him can't play defense, especially given Berset's defensive numbers being better than at least 5 of them, but most of those have a bit better numbers than Chris on offense, which is all anyone really cares about.
Good work, +1 to you for getting this done. We need to start a Berset4Bench website.
The narrative for each catcher essentially consists of a simple recitation of his Avg., HRs and RBIs. Apparently the Rivals author is (1) lazy and (2) not keen on the baseball statistics revolution.
You're not going to get much from college stats. They aren't tracked on the large scale other than who leads the basic stats. That's just the way college baseball is.
And yeah, I think he gets a little lazy. If it's not the SEC/ACC/PAC-10/Big 12, it doesn't matter.