But here's what I think is most interesting...looking at the other positions individually, I don't see much difference in the stats. PB/9 rangers from 1.97 (the shortstops) to 2.17 (for 1B). It's been years since I took stats, but I'm not even sure that difference is statistically significant. I think a t-test is the appropriate tool here, if anyone feels like checking the math. There are some differences, for sure (1B have the lowest CS% by far; OF and DH make more errors), but all in all, it seems that if you are going to play someone out of position at catcher, it really doesn't matter who it is. Even the DH (1995 Paul Molitor) isn't THAT much worse than the others, and given how well he (or any pure DH) hits for the salary cost, maybe the DH is actually the best play here.
To be clear, it's clearly a TERRIBLE idea not to use an actual catcher at the position. But if for whatever reason you HAVE to do so, it's not clear to me that it makes much difference what position you draw from.
At the end of the season, if I have time, I may try to look at how individual FLD/RNG ratings performed. We'll see if that tells us anything more interesting.