March Composite Rankings – First Base
Our staff composite rankings are back! We’re kicking things off with Catcher and we’ll be rolling out a new position each day over the next week-plus. I will still be doing my commentary by position rankings to give a quick little thought, but those will be separate posts.
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:
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.
You can also check out my 1B rankings with commentary here.
Key:
- AVG– just the average of the seven ranking sets
- Adj. AVG– the average minus the high and low rankings
- SPLIT– the difference between the high and low rankings
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| NAME | Paul S | Mike | Jeff | Justin | AVG | Adj. AVG | Split | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Goldschmidt | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0 |
| 2 | Freddie Freeman | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1 |
| 3 | Joey Votto | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3.0 | 2.5 | 3 |
| 4 | Anthony Rizzo | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 1 |
| 5 | Jose Abreu | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 1 |
| 6 | Edwin Encarnacion | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 3 |
| 7 | Rhys Hoskins | 9 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 5 |
| 8 | Cody Bellinger | 6 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 4 |
| 9 | Wil Myers | 8 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 9.3 | 9.5 | 4 |
| 10 | Eric Hosmer | 11 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 9.3 | 9.0 | 3 |
| 11 | Miguel Cabrera | 10 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 11.8 | 11.0 | 5 |
| 12 | Justin Smoak | 12 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 13.8 | 13.5 | 4 |
| 13 | Miguel Sano | 16 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 14.5 | 15.0 | 4 |
| 14 | Ian Desmond | 13 | 21 | 13 | 13 | 15.0 | 13.0 | 8 |
| 15 | Joey Gallo | 15 | 9 | 22 | 15 | 15.3 | 15.0 | 13 |
| 16 | Matt Carpenter | 22 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 16.0 | 15.5 | 11 |
| 17 | Carlos Santana | 17 | 18 | 25 | 17 | 19.3 | 17.5 | 8 |
| 18 | Ryan Zimmerman | 19 | 20 | 17 | 23 | 19.8 | 19.5 | 6 |
| 19 | Gregory Bird | 18 | 14 | 26 | 29 | 21.8 | 22.0 | 15 |
| 20 | Josh Bell | 20 | 25 | 23 | 21 | 22.3 | 22.0 | 5 |
| 21 | Jay Bruce | 26 | 17 | 30 | 18 | 22.8 | 22.0 | 13 |
| 22 | Yulieski Gurriel | 30 | 31 | 12 | 20 | 23.3 | 25.0 | 19 |
| 23 | Matt Olson | 14 | 27 | 34 | 19 | 23.5 | 23.0 | 20 |
| 24 | Yonder Alonso | 24 | 28 | 18 | 27 | 24.3 | 25.5 | 10 |
| 25 | Justin Bour | 25 | 34 | 21 | 22 | 25.5 | 23.5 | 13 |
| 26 | Trey Mancini | 29 | 32 | 20 | 28 | 27.3 | 28.5 | 12 |
| 27 | Ryan McMahon | 21 | 38 | 19 | 34 | 28.0 | 27.5 | 19 |
| 28 | Logan Morrison | 28 | 19 | 35 | 31 | 28.3 | 29.5 | 16 |
| 29 | Eric Thames | 31 | 22 | 36 | 26 | 28.8 | 28.5 | 14 |
| 30 | Kendrys Morales | 32 | 29 | 32 | 25 | 29.5 | 30.5 | 7 |
| 31 | Hanley Ramirez | 33 | 23 | 40 | 24 | 30.0 | 28.5 | 17 |
| 32 | Brandon Belt | 35 | 24 | 28 | 35 | 30.5 | 31.5 | 11 |
| 33 | Chris Davis | 36 | 26 | 39 | 30 | 32.8 | 33.0 | 13 |
| 34 | C.J. Cron | 34 | 33 | 33 | 32 | 33.0 | 33.0 | 2 |
| 35 | Joe Mauer | 40 | 35 | 24 | 36 | 33.8 | 35.5 | 16 |
| 36 | Marwin Gonzalez | 23 | 44 | 27 | 43 | 34.3 | 35.0 | 21 |
| 37 | Albert Pujols | 39 | 30 | 31 | 37 | 34.3 | 34.0 | 9 |
| 38 | Jose Martinez | 27 | 48 | 38 | 33 | 36.5 | 35.5 | 21 |
| 39 | Lucas Duda | 37 | 39 | 41 | 41 | 39.5 | 40.0 | 4 |
| 40 | Ryon Healy | 41 | 41 | 37 | 39 | 39.5 | 40.0 | 4 |
| 41 | Neil Walker | 43 | 47 | 29 | 51 | 42.5 | 45.0 | 22 |
| 42 | Mitch Moreland | 44 | 45 | 45 | 40 | 43.5 | 44.5 | 5 |
| 43 | Matt Davidson | 45 | 36 | 47 | 51 | 44.8 | 46.0 | 15 |
| 44 | Jedd Gyorko | 46 | 37 | 51 | 45 | 44.8 | 45.5 | 14 |
| 45 | Gerardo Parra | 47 | 40 | 51 | 42 | 45.0 | 44.5 | 11 |
| 46 | Chase Headley | 48 | 46 | 44 | 44 | 45.5 | 45.0 | 4 |
| 47 | Matt Adams | 38 | 57 | 51 | 38 | 46.0 | 44.5 | 19 |
| 48 | Luis Valbuena | 51 | 43 | 46 | 46 | 46.5 | 46.0 | 8 |
| 49 | Derek Dietrich | 42 | 42 | 51 | 51 | 46.5 | 46.5 | 9 |
| 50 | Wilmer Flores | 49 | 53 | 42 | 48 | 48.0 | 48.5 | 11 |
Wow Pod with Hoskins over Votto…
Sporer- would you have Votto #1 in leagues with Avg and OBP?
There are within like 50 cents of each other. It’s because I’m the high man on Hoskins’ batting average, so that is boosting his value compared to everyone else.
Curious what the value drop off is like between Rizzo/Votto and Abreu… that seems like a natural faultline given that nobody has Abreu above any of the five guys ahead of him.
I have Abreu just below Votto, the dropoff for me is after him to EE, about a $3 drop there.
Pod having GALLO over Bellinger is even more interesting! Pod, what do you prefer about Gallo that gets him ahead of Cody? Seems like they have similar skillsets, with Bellinger a lot more likely to hit .250-.270.