When shopping, we are always looking for the biggest bang for our buck. Though expensive items are nice, they eat into your budget and prevent you from affording other quality products.

Sometimes, you just have to buy what you can afford and realize the best things in life aren’t free.

When looking at fantasy catchers, there are two names at the top: J.T. Realmuto and Gary Sanchez. Everyone else is significantly inferior.

As good as they are, their price tags are steep. According to Fantasy Alarm, the Phillies’ Realmuto, the best catcher available, has a 60.99 average draft position, and Sanchez, who you should expect to have a bounce-back season for the Yankees, is slightly higher at 59.35.

Either likely will cost a fourth- or fifth-round draft pick. You also would be leaving valuable players like Zack Greinke, George Springer, Eugenio Suarez or Stephen Strasburg available to your competitors.

If you wait a few rounds, you can have your choice of reliable and productive backstops like the Royals’ Salvador Perez (120.71 ADP), the Cubs’ Wilson Contreras (130.28), the Mets’ Wilson Ramos (133.46), the Brewers’ Yasmani Grandal (136.31), the Giants’ Buster Posey (149.30) and the Cardinals’ age-defying Yadier Molina (151.01).

Even after those top eight are gone, it still isn’t time to panic. It just means you put a priority on other positions and realized there are talented players behind the plate later in the draft, even if it seems risky to have them as your top option.

Blue Jays rookie Danny Jansen (218.18) hit .323 with 10 homers, 48 RBIs and a .884 OPS while walking more than he struck out (41-40) between three levels in the minors in 2018. He plays in a hitter’s park, where he should start, so he should be firmly on your radar.

Or maybe you wait even longer for the Astros’ Robinson Chirinos (243.84), who had a career-low average (.222) and struck out a career-high 140 times but did reach career highs in homers (18), RBIs (65), runs (48), walks (45) and games played (113). His cheap price tag, along with hitting ninth in a strong lineup (he is a lifetime .257 hitter with 21 homers, 51 RBIs and a .854 OPS out of the nine hole), he should provide great value.

Jorge Alfaro (244.01) may swing at anything, but he has some pop (10 homers in 377 at-bats in 2018) and should get plenty of playing time with the Marlins.

Unless the White Sox’s Welington Castillo’s (246.66) production in 2017, when he was a top-eight fantasy backstop, was fueled by PEDs (He was suspended for 80 games last season for violating the league’s drug policy.), he should be more than serviceable late-round pick.

After the Twins’ Willians Astudillo (258.63) sorts out his visa issues, he should provide a solid average while rarely striking out. The Padres’ Francisco Mejia (245.87) is just 23 and showed what he can do in the minors over six seasons (.293, 54 HRs, 313 RBIs, .799 OPS), despite the fact he has not had much luck in the majors (.174 average in 32 games) and is battling Austin Hedges (294.88) for playing time.

It still is to be determined how time will be split with the Nationals between Yan Gomes (242.57) and Kurt Suzuki (298.93), but both should put up solid numbers. The Rays’ Mike Zunino (250.17) is the catching version of Joey Gallo. Though Zunino has averaged 18 homers a year since 2014, he has hit .207 and struck out in 34.2 percent of his at-bats in that span. The Pirates’ Francisco Cervelli (275.22) and the Reds’ Tucker Barnhart (275.29) don’t have a ton of upside, but can give you double-digit homers and a respectable average. The Mariners’ Omar Narvaez (309.75) has hit .274 in 221 career major league games, so he could, at the least, keep your average in check.

Hopefully you won’t be stuck starting Jonathan Lucroy (308.86), who is still trying to find the elixir that caused 2016, Tyler Flowers (402.29), Carson Kelly (436.22), Christian Vazquez (526.13), Isiah Kiner-Falefa or Chris Iannetta (357.29), but they’ll at least give you a full lineup.

Catchers
1. J.T. Realmuto (Phi)
2. Gary Sanchez (NYY)
3. Yasmani Grandal (Mil)
4. Wilson Ramos (NYM)
5. Buster Posey (SF)
6. Yadier Molina (StL)
7. Wilson Contreras (CHC)
8. Salvador Perez (KC)
9. Welington Castillo (CWS)
10. Danny Jansen (Tor)
11. Willians Astudillo (Min)
12. Yan Gomes (Was)
13. Francisco Cervelli (Pit)
14. Jorge Alfaro (Mia)
15. Robinson Chirinos (Hou)

16. Mike Zunino (TB)
17. Tucker Barnhart (Cin)
18. Jonathan Lucroy (LAA)
19. Kurt Suzuki (Was)
20. John Hicks (Det)
21. Omar Narvaez (Sea)
22. Isiah Kiner-Falefa (Tex0
23. Francisco Mejia (SD)
24. Tyler Flowers (Atl)
25. Austin Hedges (SD)
26. Chris Iannetta (Col)
27. Christian Vazquez (Bos)
28. Austin Barnes (LAD)
29. Elias Diaz (Pit)
30. Mitch Garver (Min)