2025 Player Outlook

Contreras is one of, if not the best offensive talents behind the dish heading into 2025. After hitting 23 home runs and hitting .381 last season, he has an even higher ceiling in 2025. Ideally, his ground ball rate isn’t in the mid-50s like it’s been the last three seasons, because he makes a ton of hard contact (10 percent barrel rate, 49.0% hard hit rate), and he has great feel of the strike zone. There’re not many catchers that will play 150+ games in a season, and that alone increases his fantasy value. He should be the first catcher off the board by a comfortable margin in fantasy baseball drafts this season, as he’s set to hit 23-28 home runs with a .270+ batting average.