Justin Mason’s Top 50 Second Basemen- July 2, 2020

July 2, 2020

With baseball officially inching closer to an actual season, it is time to update draft ranks for those of you that are like me and still have leagues that still need to draft. I will likely be updating each set of ranks I release once or twice before opening day as news of the schedule, players opting out of the season, and other information could shake things up tremendously. However, here are my current second base ranks as of now. (Beginning of tiers are highlighted in blue)

Rank	Player	Team	Position(s)	Previous	Change
1	Gleyber Torres	NYY	2B, SS	1	0
2	Jonathan Villar	MIA	SS, 2B	2	0
3	Jose Altuve	HOU	2B	3	0
4	Ozzie Albies	ATL	2B	5	1
5	Ketel Marte	ARZ	2B, OF	4	-1
6	Keston Hiura	MLW	2B	7	1
7	Whit Merrifield	KC	2B, OF	6	-1
8	Max Muncy	LAD	2B, 1B, 3B	8	0
9	DJ LeMahieu	NYY	1B, 3B, 2B	10	1
10	Mike Moustakas	CIN	2B, 3B	9	-1
11	Cavan Biggio	TOR	2B	13	2
12	Jeff McNeil	NYM	OF, 3B, 2B	11	-1
13	Tommy Edman	STL	2B, 3B	20	7
14	Garrett Hampson	COL	2B, OF	16	2
15	Eduardo Escobar	ARZ	2B, 3B	12	-3
16	Ryan McMahon	COL	2B, 3B	17	1
17	Brandon Lowe	TB	2B	18	1
18	Starlin Castro	WAS	3B, 2B	37	19
19	Gavin Lux	LAD	2B	14	-5
20	Rougned Odor	TEX	2B	19	-1
21	Kolton Wong	STL	2B	23	2
22	Howie Kendrick	WAS	1B, 2B	29	7
23	Luis Arraez	MIN	2B, OF	24	1
24	Tommy La Stella	LAA	2B, 3B	26	2
25	Robinson Cano	NYM	2B	27	2
26	Michael Chavis	BOS	1B, 2B	21	-5
27	Shed Long	SEA	2B	33	6
28	Kevin Newman	PIT	2B, SS	15	-13
29	Cesar Hernandez	CLE	2B	35	6
30	Nick Madrigal	CWS	2B	30	0
31	Luis Urias	MLW	SS, 2B	25	-6
32	Schoop, Jonathan	DET	2B	51	19
33	Mauricio Dubon	SF	2B	28	-5
34	Adam Frazier	PIT	2B	32	-2
35	Isan Diaz	MIA	2B	34	-1
36	Franklin Barreto	OAK	2B	36	0
37	Niko Goodrum	DET	2B, SS, OF	38	1
38	David Fletcher	LAA	SS, OF, 2B, 3B	39	1
39	Dee Gordon	SEA	2B	22	-17
40	Hanser Alberto	BAL	2B, 3B	41	1
41	Jose Peraza	BOS	OF, 2B, SS	40	-1
42	Freddy Galvis	CIN	2B, SS	42	0
43	Sogard, Eric	TB	2B	51	8
44	Jurickson Profar	SD	2B	31	-13
45	Wilmer Flores	ARZ	2B	43	-2
46	Cabrera, Asdrubal	WAS	2B, 3B	51	5
47	Nicky Lopez	KC	2B, SS	44	-3
48	Sheldon Neuse	OAK	2B	45	-3
49	Joey Wendle	TB	2B, 3B	46	-3
50	Brendan Rodgers	COL	2B	47	-3

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bbboston

4 years ago

I know I’ll get little support in this statement, but what-the-hell:

Luis Arraez will hit 0.335 in this shortened season and he’ll get a few steals/hrs. Next Spring the fantasy world will wake up to the fact that a full season of .335 BA, 7 Hrs/Steals is actually great in a world where BA has gone out the window, like steals.

Anon

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Statcast wasn’t buying his BA last year – his xBA was .290. Yes he doesn’t strike out and hit an absurd number of line drives last year, but low EV and really low hard hit % say it was a mirage. Further, there is nothing in his minor league track record to suggest that he can maintain a 29% line drive rate. He has run high BA in the minors but largely on the strength of BABIPs in the upper .300’s that is going to be tough to maintain at hte major league level.

Maybe he can keep it up and become a line drive machine but I’m dubious

MustBunique

Wait, hold up. Hang on. In sixty games you have confidence that players’ Batting Averages will normalize to their true talent levels? I’m interested in why you think that. Batting Averages are historically one of the stats that take the longest time to normalize. I think the shortened season calls for completely punting Batting Average, because it will be nearly impossible to predict and will be the product of luck both via batted balls and scheduling.