RotoGraphs June Consensus Ranks: Shortstop

Whoo boy. What a turd of a position.

Sure, in the shallower leagues, you’re okay. There’s about 5-10 shortstops that I want to have and another seven or so that look okay to me. If you waited and picked Dee Gordon (or got him off waivers), congrats. Alexei Ramirez was another great late pick. Jimmy Rollins is resurgent. It looks like a good Alcides Escobar year — not a bad one at least.

But if you spent an early pick on anyone not named Troy Tulowitzki, you’re hurting a bit. Hanley Ramirez seems to be waiving .300 goodbye, and injuries seem like they’ll be a problem going forward. I’ve continued to believe in Jean Segura all along, all through those terrible-looking at-bats, and he’s turning it around some (but doesn’t look like early 2013 Segura). Ian Desmond… it turned out he *was* a risk. Everth Cabrera returned to his pre-Biogenisis contact rate, perhaps.

And the young crowd hasn’t quite established themselves yet. Xander Bogaerts is showing some signs of life. Chris Owings hit a homer and looks like he might be cromulent. Andrelton Simmons is making contact like nobody. Brad Miller may have survived the onslaught on his job, things have looked up a bit recently. None is ready to be an elite shortstop right now.

Who’d you end up with?

Again, this is for 5×5 roto, and though Jeff Zimmerman mostly uses the rest of season projections, it’s not just a computer ranking. We’ve left off the color coding in favor of a simple up or down arrow — those arrows are only next to big movers. The table is designed to be sortable in case you prefer one of the rankings.

RG	name	Jeff	Zach	Mike	Eno
1	Troy Tulowitzki	1	1	1	1
2	Hanley Ramirez	5	2	2	3
3	Jean Segura	3	3	4	2
4	Ian Desmond	2	4	3	4
5	Jose Reyes	6	6	6	5
6	Elvis Andrus	4	11	5	6
7	Alexei Ramirez	7	5	11	7
8	Everth Cabrera	9	7	8	8
9	Starlin Castro	8	8	10	10
10	Dee Gordon	15	12	9	9
11	Xander Bogaerts	13	10	13	11
12	Jimmy Rollins	12	15	14	14
13	Ben Zobrist	20	16	7	13
14	Alcides Escobar	18	9	21	12
15	J.J. Hardy	16	14	12	19
16	Erick Aybar	11	13	19	21
17	Jed Lowrie	22	17	15	17
18	Jonathan Villar	10	23	16	23
19	Asdrubal Cabrera	17	22	18	16
20	Andrelton Simmons	21	21	17	15
21	Chris Owings	19	19	23	18
22	Jhonny Peralta	23	18	22	22
23	Brad Miller	14	32	20	20
24	Stephen Drew	36	20	16	24
25	Yunel Escobar	26	26	25	25
26	Derek Jeter	31	27	24	27
27	Brandon Crawford	30	24	29	26
28	Zack Cozart	24	29	26	33
29	Mike Aviles	25	25	35	34
30	Jordy Mercer	32	33	27	28
31	Adeiny Hechavarria	27	28	32	35
32	Josh Rutledge	28	41	34	29
33	Eduardo Escobar	29	30	39	36
34	Eric Sogard	34	41	30	30
35	Alexi Amarista	35	41	38	31
36	Andrew Romine	33	41	31	41
37	Ruben Tejada	41	36	37	32
38	Logan Forsythe	41	41	28	38
39	Ryan Flaherty	38	41	33	41
40	Pedro Florimon	39	41	36	41
41	Eduardo Nunez	40	41	41	37

Ranked by one analyst: Didi Gregorius, Daniel Descalso, Chris Taylor, Addison Russell, Cliff Pennington, Pedro Ciriaco, and Francisco Lindor.