catchers are tough to rank, but I thought BA's top ten catchers was particularly confused. They had Clement 1st, Conger 2nd, Anderson 3rd, Towles 4th, and Teagarden all the way down at 10th. To me this overranks Conger, who has proved little ,and underranks Taylor Teagarden who looks really promising to me.

I''d probably have the top five of the list something like Clement, Teagarden,  Anderson, Towles, Conger, with Max Ramirez heading up the back 5.

Teagarden came out of college touted as a superb defensive C and even coming off of his TJ surgery is throwing out a high percentage of base stealers.

Teagarden had a 1054 OPS in High A ball (Cal Lg, though) and is at .998 in AA (small sample size caveat).

He's catching 2 or 3 days a week as a precaution coming off his injuries. That doesn't seem problematic to me. A broken back is actually better than most back injuries: the bone heals, and you're better, it's not like a chronic back condition. And, as for TJ, about 90% of pitchers not come off of TJ as good or better than before, and for a catcher it seems even less problematic -- particularly given how he's been throwing. It seems smart in the 2nd year off of TJ to limit Teagarden's throwing, but that doesn't throw up a red flag to me -- standard recovery period is 12-18 months, no?

That resume is, to me, far more impressive than others on the list aside from Clement. Conger seems to have an impressive bat, but it's unclear if he'll stick at catcher and he has a lot more to prove.

Am I overrating Teagarden, or am I right that he's being underrated? Any other comments on their catcher rankings?