March Composite Rankings – Shortstop
Our staff composite rankings are back! We’re onto shortstop 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.
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 | Trea Turner | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0 |
| 2 | Francisco Lindor | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1 |
| 3 | Carlos Correa | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1 |
| 4 | Corey Seager | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 2 |
| 5 | Alex Bregman | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 0 |
| 6 | Elvis Andrus | 9 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6.3 | 6.0 | 5 |
| 7 | Jean Segura | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 1 |
| 8 | Xander Bogaerts | 7 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 5 |
| 9 | Trevor Story | 8 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 9.3 | 8.5 | 4 |
| 10 | Didi Gregorius | 15 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 11.8 | 11.0 | 5 |
| 11 | Javier Baez | 10 | 20 | 11 | 10 | 12.8 | 10.5 | 10 |
| 12 | Chris Taylor | 11 | 9 | 17 | 18 | 13.8 | 14.0 | 9 |
| 13 | Marcus Semien | 14 | 11 | 23 | 11 | 14.8 | 12.5 | 12 |
| 14 | Andrelton Simmons | 16 | 18 | 13 | 14 | 15.3 | 15.0 | 5 |
| 15 | Eduardo Nunez | 12 | 22 | 9 | 20 | 15.8 | 16.0 | 13 |
| 16 | Orlando Arcia | 13 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 16.5 | 16.0 | 8 |
| 17 | Jorge Polanco | 19 | 15 | 14 | 21 | 17.3 | 17.0 | 7 |
| 18 | Paul DeJong | 20 | 14 | 16 | 22 | 18.0 | 18.0 | 8 |
| 19 | Tim Beckham | 21 | 13 | 25 | 19 | 19.5 | 20.0 | 12 |
| 20 | Jose Peraza | 26 | 16 | 15 | 23 | 20.0 | 19.5 | 11 |
| 21 | Zack Cozart | 22 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 20.3 | 21.0 | 9 |
| 22 | Marwin Gonzalez | 17 | 28 | 21 | 17 | 20.8 | 19.0 | 11 |
| 23 | Addison Russell | 23 | 19 | 28 | 16 | 21.5 | 21.0 | 12 |
| 24 | Tim Anderson | 18 | 25 | 22 | 26 | 22.8 | 23.5 | 8 |
| 25 | Brandon Crawford | 27 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 26.0 | 26.0 | 2 |
| 26 | Amed Rosario | 25 | 23 | 18 | 42 | 27.0 | 24.0 | 24 |
| 27 | Asdrubal Cabrera | 28 | 17 | 24 | 43 | 28.0 | 26.0 | 26 |
| 28 | Ketel Marte | 31 | 29 | 27 | 27 | 28.5 | 28.0 | 4 |
| 29 | Chris Owings | 29 | 33 | 29 | 24 | 28.8 | 29.0 | 9 |
| 30 | Freddy Galvis | 30 | 27 | 31 | 29 | 29.3 | 29.5 | 4 |
| 31 | Troy Tulowitzki | 33 | 31 | 33 | 30 | 31.8 | 32.0 | 3 |
| 32 | Hernan Perez | 36 | 30 | 36 | 33 | 33.8 | 34.5 | 6 |
| 33 | Yangervis Solarte | 32 | 36 | 37 | 31 | 34.0 | 34.0 | 6 |
| 34 | Jose Iglesias | 37 | 35 | 30 | 37 | 34.8 | 36.0 | 7 |
| 35 | Dansby Swanson | 38 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35.3 | 34.5 | 4 |
| 36 | Jose Reyes | 24 | 47 | 43 | 28 | 35.5 | 35.5 | 23 |
| 37 | Jordy Mercer | 39 | 37 | 35 | 36 | 36.8 | 36.5 | 4 |
| 38 | J.P. Crawford | 35 | 41 | 41 | 34 | 37.8 | 38.0 | 7 |
| 39 | Adeiny Hechavarria | 48 | 32 | 32 | 45 | 39.3 | 38.5 | 16 |
| 40 | Alcides Escobar | 42 | 38 | 38 | 40 | 39.5 | 39.0 | 4 |
| 41 | Franklin Barreto | 40 | 51 | 46 | 32 | 42.3 | 43.0 | 19 |
| 42 | Adalberto Mondesi | 41 | 49 | 45 | 38 | 43.3 | 43.0 | 11 |
| 43 | Aledmys Diaz | 34 | 54 | 46 | 41 | 43.8 | 43.5 | 20 |
| 44 | Nick Ahmed | 46 | 40 | 46 | 44 | 44.0 | 45.0 | 6 |
| 45 | Chad Pinder | 44 | 42 | 44 | 49 | 44.8 | 44.0 | 7 |
Where does Machado slot in this list when he gets SS eligibility?
Between Galvis and Tulo?
Probably 4 for me.
Beings its a contract year. Does Machado get the green light more often? Possibly 12+ steals this year? Maybe returning to his 2015 running self again.
Why not just include him?
Does it really matter? No rankings include him as he doesn’t qualify there right now and these are draft lists, but he’s a top 2 round guy… insert up near the top somewhere. It doesn’t change much.
Then why rank any of the top players if it doesn’t matter???
Because they qualify for the position…. c’mon, man.
These rankings are meant to help people plan for the draft correct? If people are planning to draft Machado as a SS then it makes sense to help them plan for that. That’s why.
We rank the people eligible at the positions. Standard operating procedure across the entire industry. Not sure why you’re so bent on this but I’m afraid you’ll have to add Machado manually. Good luck in your drafts!
Sporting News ranked him as a SS. I love your work Paul but this is a silly reason.
It’s really not, though. ESPN, CBS, Rotowire, and FantasyPros didn’t. I just don’t see why it’s a combative thing. Sorry, man.
Going into the 2017 season the entire world, including Maddon, thought Kyle Schwarber was going to start at least 10 games as catcher. In anticipation of this, Yahoo! made Schwarber catcher eligible for 2017, despite not playing enough games to qualify at catcher in 2016. People were furious. Schwarber never did play enough games at catcher to properly qualify for catcher in 2017.
Sporer has the right call here.
What? Pretty sure Fangraphs still ranked him as a C though. You chose the wrong example.
That is exactly the point. Maddon said Schwarber was going to play catcher in 2017. Yahoo! believed him and made Schwarber catcher eligible, going against their own eligibility rules. Schwarber never started a game at catcher in all of 2017. Considering Schwarber a catcher was a mistake made by the entire fantasy community- eligibility AND rankings.
From Fangraph’s perspective, this is a case of “Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. “
Machado cannot be considered SS right now. My league, for example, requires that we fill each starting slot on our rosters by the end of the auction. I cannot pick Machado to fill my SS slot.
Let it go. Stop ruining a good post. Glad you read the Sporting News. Is it the 1985 edition ?
I agree that he shouldn’t be included in the rankings, as isn’t a SS yet, and something could change that keeps him at 3B.
However, I do have the question always of where would a top guy rank. Knowing that he ‘likely’ will gain eligibility early on it maybe would have been a good idea to have made a side note before or after the rankings. Being that he is such a top level player.
With you guys being good about responding in the comment section though…kinda does that though.
If he doesn’t currently qualify at the position then you can’t draft him there. Duh!
He’s going to be a SS a week into the season and most everyone will be drafting him as a SS. Seems strange that people don’t just go ahead and rank him.
Does any site have him ranked at SS?
Machado will be between Schoop and Beckham. . . .
Good one. LOL
probably first.
He’s number one, if you buy the bouceback. The Steamer projections do!
Here are the Fangraphs Auction Calculator $ values (found under the Projections tab) using standard Ottoneu settings, 12 teams, and a $260 budget (dollar values assigned to Avg, R, RBI, HR, SB, Position Adjustment):
Trout: $42.3 (for reference)
Turner: $30.6 (#6 overall hitter)
Machado: $30.1 (#7 overall hitter)
Lindor: $25.4
Correa: $21.6
Bellinger: $19.6 (for reference, 30th ranked batter)
The same projections, adjusted for standard Yahoo league settings (no distinction in OF, no CI or MI, 2 UT, 5 Bench, 1400 max IP):
Trout: $56.3 (for reference)
Machado: $37.8 (#6 overall hitter)
Turner: $37.4 (#7 overall hitter)
Lindor: $31.5
Correa: $25.9
Bellinger: $22.6 (still #30)