648 last year, and has struggled to stay healthy. The thing is, it's hard to count on that. If both guys stay healthy and Jeffers takes that next step, the Twins will have a catching setup that is the envy of the league. In some eyes, he could be viewed as one of the best backup catchers in the game – a still-developing impact starter who now has the luxury of coming along slowly with an established vet splitting time. Although I guess that depends on your assessment of Jeffers. The front office desperately needed to strengthen the catcher position this past offseason, and while they did, it could still hardly be described as a strength.

As discussed in this year's top prospect recap, catcher continues to be an area of extreme scarcity in this system. Meanwhile, there's no position in the Twins organization with less in the way of immediate pipeline impact. Minnesota has built out its experienced upper-level depth a bit with Wolters, Greiner, and Cisco, but those three combined to play four games in the majors last year. He became more or less the primary starter. Their depth was so sparse last year that when Jeffers went down for an extended period, they were forced to run out Caleb Hamilton for a few games and eventually acquired no-hit veteran Sany León from Cleveland's Triple-A team. The Twins really need to hope Vázquez can maintain his record of staying healthy, because an injury could put the Twins right back into a familiar spot of grasping for answers behind the plate. Both are considered very solid receivers who pitchers like to work with, giving the Twins a more consistent level of quality behind the plate after Gary Sánchez (still unsigned) caught 714 innings mostly out of necessity last season.

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