RotoGraphs Consensus Ranks: Third Base

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March 5, 2013

It’s time to finish up the infield. Surprisingly perhaps only to me, third base ended up being the deepest position more years than it wasn’t in my FanGraphs+ auction strategy analysis.

There’s probably more agreement at the top of this position than most, at least more than the shortstops. Once you get past the top three or four, the agreement stops, but then you also have a scrum that looks like it could be one single tier, all the way down past twelve. This could be a position you wait on if you miss the top guys in a mixed league. But don’t wait too long in deep league. It gets dicey again in the late twenties.

It looks like I like Brett Lawrie, Mike Moustakas, and Pablo Sandoval better than most. That sounds right.

(The projections listed are the FanGraphs-Steamer projections and are not the basis for each analyst’s rankings.)

RotoG ES JZ MP ZS Name PA AVG R HR RBI SB
1 1 1 1 1 Miguel Cabrera 672 0.32 105 35 115 3
2 2 2 2 4 David Wright 651 0.282 83 21 81 10
3 4 3 4 3 Adrian Beltre 580 0.295 78 27 94 1
4 3 6 3 7 Evan Longoria 564 0.277 80 29 88 4
5 5 5 7 2 Chase Headley 673 0.264 79 18 77 11
6 6 4 5 12 Hanley Ramirez 614 0.269 78 19 74 16
7 9 10 6 6 Ryan Zimmerman 539 0.282 69 21 74 3
8 7 8 8 10 Brett Lawrie 545 0.267 66 16 67 12
9 11 11 9 5 Aramis Ramirez 521 0.275 65 21 76 3
10 10 7 12 8 Martin Prado 642 0.294 85 13 66 8
11 8 9 10 14 Pablo Sandoval 536 0.298 71 20 79 2
12 15 13 11 9 Mark Trumbo 502 0.255 63 24 74 3
13 13 12 13 15 Kyle Seager 628 0.254 68 16 68 9
14 16 14 14 11 Will Middlebrooks 498 0.259 59 20 67 7
15 12 15 17 13 Mike Moustakas 581 0.254 66 20 74 3
16 14 16 15 16 David Freese 502 0.281 58 15 61 2
17 17 17 19 17 Michael Young 569 0.288 63 12 62 2
18 18 19 16 18 Todd Frazier 502 0.242 55 19 63 7
19 19 18 22 19 Pedro Alvarez 578 0.24 67 25 76 2
20 20 21 18 21 Manny Machado 496 0.24 54 13 54 10
21 24 23 20 22 Lonnie Chisenhall 458 0.248 50 15 55 3
22 21 20 24 26 Jeff Keppinger 532 0.28 62 10 53 2
23 22 25 21 24 Kevin Youkilis 415 0.254 51 15 51 1
24 23 22 26 30 Mark Reynolds 531 0.225 66 25 70 2
25 27 27 27 23 Trevor Plouffe 430 0.235 47 17 53 2
26 26 26 31 31 Jordan Pacheco 323 0.275 32 5 34 3
27 30 29 30 25 Alberto Callaspo 383 0.265 41 7 39 3
28 25 24 38 39 Jedd Gyorko 391 0.269 42 13 59 4
29 29 28 38 32 Jamey Carroll 485 0.275 51 1 37 7
30 32 32 34 29 Josh Donaldson 388 0.242 43 13 45 6
31 33 34 29 38 Brett Wallace 370 0.253 41 12 44 1
32 34 42 23 35 Maicer Izturis 254 0.263 27 3 24 7
33 37 38 28 33 Adeiny Hechavarria 397 0.235 32 5 34 6
34 31 30 38 41 Chris Johnson 342 0.259 35 9 40 2
35 28 31 32 51 Chris Nelson 304 0.274 33 8 37 2
36 36 45 35 27 Matt Dominguez 339 0.242 35 9 36 1
37 42 36 37 28 Donovan Solano 411 0.248 34 3 34 5
38 39 35 38 40 Steve Lombardozzi 298 0.252 27 4 27 6
39 42 39 38 34 Luis Cruz 346 0.249 30 6 37 2
40 40 40 38 37 Juan Francisco 277 0.249 29 11 36 1
41 35 33 38 51 Matt Carpenter 317 0.259 33 5 33 2
42 42 37 38 45 Placido Polanco 384 0.268 37 3 31 2
43 42 41 38 47 Daniel Descalso 380 0.247 34 4 35 3
44 38 48 38 49 Ian Stewart 328 0.235 36 12 40 2
45 42 51 36 44 Alex Rodriguez 187 0.259 23 7 24 2
46 41 51 38 46 Mike Olt 170 0.231 19 6 20 2
47 42 49 38 48 Ryan Roberts 286 0.236 30 7 29 5

Others ranked by one analyst: Wilson Betemit, DJ LeMahieu, Eduardo Nunez, Ryan Wheeler, Jerry Hairston, Sean Rodriguez and Greg Dobbs.





 

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SKob
12 years ago

After this one and SS from earlier, I’m finding Mr. ZS to be highly unreliable! A breakout season makes Headley #2, and Hanley is outside the top 10… behind Middlebrooks… ummm, ok!

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