March Composite Rankings – Shortstop

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March 14, 2018

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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March Shortstop Rankings
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





 

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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brood550
6 years ago

Where does Machado slot in this list when he gets SS eligibility?

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southie
6 years ago
Reply to  brood550

Between Galvis and Tulo?

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Paul Sporermember
6 years ago
Reply to  brood550

Probably 4 for me.

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brood550
6 years ago
Reply to  Paul Sporer

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.

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CarMars Favoritemember
6 years ago
Reply to  Paul Sporer

Why not just include him?

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Paul Sporermember
6 years ago
Reply to  CarMars Favorite

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.

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CarMars Favoritemember
6 years ago
Reply to  Paul Sporer

Then why rank any of the top players if it doesn’t matter???

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Paul Sporermember
6 years ago
Reply to  CarMars Favorite

Because they qualify for the position…. c’mon, man.

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CarMars Favoritemember
6 years ago
Reply to  Paul Sporer

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.

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Paul Sporermember
6 years ago
Reply to  CarMars Favorite

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!

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CarMars Favoritemember
6 years ago
Reply to  Paul Sporer

Sporting News ranked him as a SS. I love your work Paul but this is a silly reason.

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Paul Sporermember
6 years ago
Reply to  CarMars Favorite

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.

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themightypeace
6 years ago
Reply to  Paul Sporer

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.

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CarMars Favoritemember
6 years ago
Reply to  themightypeace

What? Pretty sure Fangraphs still ranked him as a C though. You chose the wrong example.

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themightypeace
6 years ago
Reply to  CarMars Favorite

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. “

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Brandonmember
6 years ago
Reply to  CarMars Favorite

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.

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montrealmember
6 years ago
Reply to  CarMars Favorite

Let it go. Stop ruining a good post. Glad you read the Sporting News. Is it the 1985 edition ?

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bartelsjason
6 years ago
Reply to  Paul Sporer

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.

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catzdogz
6 years ago
Reply to  CarMars Favorite

If he doesn’t currently qualify at the position then you can’t draft him there. Duh!

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CarMars Favoritemember
6 years ago
Reply to  Paul Sporer

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.

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Paul Sporermember
6 years ago
Reply to  CarMars Favorite

Does any site have him ranked at SS?

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Anon
6 years ago
Reply to  brood550

Machado will be between Schoop and Beckham. . . .

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montrealmember
6 years ago
Reply to  Anon

Good one. LOL

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cheekfullofchew
6 years ago
Reply to  brood550

probably first.

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SnorlaxUseRest
6 years ago
Reply to  brood550

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)

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