March Composite Rankings – Second Base
Our staff composite rankings are back! We’re onto the middle infield with the keystone, a position I find to be remarkably deep. 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 2B rankings with commentary here and a closer look at the position 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 | |
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1 | Jose Altuve | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0 |
2 | Jose Ramirez | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 1 |
3 | Anthony Rizzo | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2 |
4 | Dee Gordon | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 2 |
5 | Brian Dozier | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 3 |
6 | Daniel Murphy | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6.3 | 6.0 | 3 |
7 | Jonathan Schoop | 7 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 7.8 | 7.0 | 3 |
8 | Robinson Cano | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 2 |
9 | Whit Merrifield | 12 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 9.8 | 10.0 | 7 |
10 | Rougned Odor | 9 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 10.8 | 10.5 | 6 |
11 | DJ LeMahieu | 15 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 11.0 | 11.5 | 9 |
12 | Ozzie Albies | 10 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 11.3 | 11.0 | 3 |
13 | Ian Kinsler | 14 | 9 | 16 | 18 | 14.3 | 15.0 | 9 |
14 | Matt Carpenter | 22 | 12 | 15 | 16 | 16.3 | 15.5 | 10 |
15 | Chris Taylor | 11 | 15 | 23 | 17 | 16.5 | 16.0 | 12 |
16 | Javier Baez | 18 | 27 | 17 | 10 | 18.0 | 17.5 | 17 |
17 | Eduardo Nunez | 13 | 31 | 13 | 19 | 19.0 | 16.0 | 18 |
18 | Ian Happ | 17 | 23 | 26 | 14 | 20.0 | 20.0 | 12 |
19 | Yoan Moncada | 19 | 17 | 25 | 21 | 20.5 | 20.0 | 8 |
20 | Cesar Hernandez | 21 | 16 | 14 | 31 | 20.5 | 18.5 | 17 |
21 | Marwin Gonzalez | 16 | 33 | 24 | 15 | 22.0 | 20.0 | 18 |
22 | Paul DeJong | 25 | 20 | 21 | 25 | 22.8 | 23.0 | 5 |
23 | Jose Peraza | 27 | 22 | 18 | 24 | 22.8 | 23.0 | 9 |
24 | Jonathan Villar | 20 | 21 | 34 | 20 | 23.8 | 20.5 | 14 |
25 | Josh Harrison | 23 | 28 | 19 | 26 | 24.0 | 24.5 | 9 |
26 | Tim Beckham | 28 | 19 | 31 | 22 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 12 |
27 | Scooter Gennett | 24 | 26 | 22 | 29 | 25.3 | 25.0 | 7 |
28 | Jason Kipnis | 26 | 18 | 29 | 32 | 26.3 | 27.5 | 14 |
29 | Joe Panik | 30 | 24 | 20 | 35 | 27.3 | 27.0 | 15 |
30 | Starlin Castro | 31 | 30 | 33 | 23 | 29.3 | 30.5 | 10 |
31 | Asdrubal Cabrera | 29 | 25 | 30 | 41 | 31.3 | 29.5 | 16 |
32 | Kolten Wong | 32 | 39 | 28 | 34 | 33.3 | 33.0 | 11 |
33 | Neil Walker | 33 | 37 | 27 | 44 | 35.3 | 35.0 | 17 |
34 | Devon Travis | 38 | 29 | 35 | 45 | 36.8 | 36.5 | 16 |
35 | Brad Miller | 34 | 44 | 43 | 27 | 37.0 | 38.5 | 17 |
36 | Brandon Drury | 36 | 36 | 39 | 40 | 37.8 | 37.5 | 4 |
37 | Yangervis Solarte | 35 | 43 | 41 | 33 | 38.0 | 38.0 | 10 |
38 | Jed Lowrie | 43 | 32 | 38 | 39 | 38.0 | 38.5 | 11 |
39 | Chris Owings | 40 | 41 | 36 | 43 | 40.0 | 40.5 | 7 |
40 | Ben Zobrist | 49 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 40.3 | 37.5 | 12 |
41 | Dustin Pedroia | 39 | 46 | 32 | 47 | 41.0 | 42.5 | 15 |
42 | Logan Forsythe | 45 | 48 | 47 | 30 | 42.5 | 46.0 | 18 |
43 | Scott Kingery | 37 | 63 | 51 | 28 | 44.8 | 44.0 | 35 |
44 | Hernan Perez | 42 | 34 | 51 | 54 | 45.3 | 46.5 | 20 |
45 | Adam Frazier | 46 | 50 | 44 | 42 | 45.5 | 45.0 | 8 |
After the off-season love fest for Albies, I’m a little surprised to see him behind Schoop, Odor, Merrifield and LaMahieu. In order, that’s a couple one dimensional sluggers who could fall off a cliff quickly (Odor is already dangling there by a hair), a guy whose best case looks a lot like Albies, and the king of empty batting averages.
Absolutely agree, OddBall. Also, why the love for Murphy considering he seems like he’s going to miss a bunch of the season?
Second this. After hearing Paul and Justin (let’s face it mostly Paul, Justin pulling up the rear) gush over Albies, I would have expected a 7-ish rank from Sporer.
Actually writing a bit about this re: the rankings being a guess at EOS finish or my draft list. There’s no chance I’m taking Murphy, Schoop, Cano at their ADPs with the Albies available behind them and if I miss out on Altuve, Ramirez, and Dozier, he’s my fourth target at 2B, but I don’t know if it’s worth ranking him like that when my compatriots are doing an EOS guess.
Yeah, EOS is way more useful for the reader on a composite list especially, since the logic is never transparent on those draft lists. Lots of mixed-motivation voting.
That makes sense. So while you’re ranking those guys ahead for EOS, there’s no way you’d end up with them on your teams. Similar to what you were saying on S&TB. Great podcast by the way. Big snowstorm here in the Boston area today, I’ll be snowblowing my driveway and listening to a couple episodes.
LeMahieu is not an empty average. He is a plus in runs, and is a positive contributor to SB. Any look at an auction calculator that quantifies his contributions shows he is right where he belongs.