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February Rankings – Second Basemen

by Paul Sporer
February 21, 2017

We’re going position by position this week and next with our initial roll out of rankings. We will update these in March based on Spring Training activity and injuries.

We’re using Yahoo! eligibility requirements which is 5 starts or 10 appearances. These rankings assume the standard 5×5 categories and a re-draft league. If we forgot someone, please let us know in the comments and we’ll make sure he’s added for the updates. If you have questions for a specific ranker on something he did, let us know in the comments. We can also be reached via Twitter:

  • Paul Sporer
  • Jeff Zimmerman
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There will be differences, sharp differences, within the rankings. The rankers have different philosophies when it comes to ranking, some of which you’re no doubt familiar with through previous iterations. Of course the idea that we’d all think the same would be silly because then what would be the point of including multiple rankers?! Think someone should be higher or lower? Make a case. Let us know why you think that. The chart is sortable. If a ranker didn’t rank someone that the others did, he was given that ranker’s last rank +1.

Key:

  • AVG– just the average of the seven ranking sets
  • AVG– the average minus the high and low rankings
  • SPLIT– the difference between the high and low rankings

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February 2B Rankings
RK NAME Paul S Brad Mike Jeff Al Justin AVG Adj. AVG Split
1 Jose Altuve 1 1 1 2 1 1 1.2 1.0 1
2 Trea Turner 2 2 2 1 3 2 2.0 2.0 2
3 Jonathan Villar 3 3 3 5 2 4 3.3 3.3 3
4 Robinson Cano 4 4 5 7 6 3 4.8 4.8 4
5 Daniel Murphy 5 5 4 6 5 6 5.2 5.3 2
6 Brian Dozier 6 7 6 4 7 5 5.8 6.0 3
7 Rougned Odor 12 12 8 3 9 8 8.7 9.3 9
8 Jean Segura 8 9 15 10 4 9 9.2 9.0 11
9 Matt Carpenter 7 6 11 16 8 10 9.7 9.0 10
10 Dee Gordon 9 13 10 8 14 7 10.2 10.0 7
11 Ian Kinsler 10 10 7 14 10 11 10.3 10.3 7
12 DJ LeMahieu 11 11 9 12 12 12 11.2 11.5 3
13 Jason Kipnis 14 8 13 13 11 13 12.0 12.5 6
14 Jose Ramirez 13 19 14 9 13 15 13.8 13.8 10
15 Dustin Pedroia 15 14 16 17 15 18 15.8 15.8 4
16 Jose Peraza 22 15 12 11 22 19 16.8 17.0 11
17 Ben Zobrist 18 18 19 20 15 16 17.7 17.8 5
18 Logan Forsythe 17 17 17 21 18 17 17.8 17.3 4
19 Eduardo Nunez 16 22 18 15 17 20 18.0 17.8 7
20 Jonathan Schoop 24 21 22 18 19 14 19.7 20.0 10
21 Neil Walker 20 16 25 19 21 23 20.7 20.8 9
22 Devon Travis 19 24 20 28 20 26 22.8 22.5 9
24 Starlin Castro 31 29 24 25 26 25 26.7 26.3 7
23 Ryan Schimpf 30 23 26 22 28 31 26.7 26.8 9
25 Javier Baez 21 20 32 31 35 24 27.2 27.0 15
26 Joe Panik 25 31 27 29 24 33 28.2 28.0 9
28 Yangervis Solarte 29 25 23 36 29 28 28.3 27.8 13
27 Josh Harrison 28 27 28 24 31 32 28.3 28.5 8
29 Jedd Gyorko 26 33 38 27 30 22 29.3 29.0 16
30 Hernan Perez 35 32 33 34 23 21 29.7 30.5 14
31 Cesar Hernandez 33 28 29 33 27 34 30.7 30.8 7
32 Brandon Phillips 34 36 30 30 33 27 31.7 31.8 9
33 Howie Kendrick 36 30 21 26 38 39 31.7 32.5 18
34 Kolten Wong 32 26 35 37 32 35 32.8 33.5 11
35 Steve Pearce 27 34 39 35 36 30 33.5 33.8 12
36 Brandon Drury 23 48 36 41 25 29 33.7 32.8 25
37 Jorge Polanco 40 42 31 23 34 38 34.7 35.8 19
38 Brett Lawrie 43 41 34 41 37 40 39.3 39.8 9
39 Derek Dietrich 38 35 41 40 41 42 39.5 40.0 7
40 Jurickson Profar 37 48 42 41 41 37 41.0 40.3 11





NFBC Slow Draft, Part 2: We Report, You Deride
 
2017 New Pitch Tracker

Paul is the Editor of Rotographs and Content Director for OOTP Perfect Team. Follow Paul on Twitter @sporer and on Twitch at sporer.

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TheLargeTuna
8 years ago

Would you feel comfortable rolling out LeMahieu as your every day 2B in a 12 team H2H points league? Just traded for him in my dynasty league.

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CJ311NYM
8 years ago
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DJ is a monster in points leagues.

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Brad JohnsonMember
8 years ago
Reply to  TheLargeTuna

Definitely.

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