Rotographs Ranking March Update – First Base

We started our positional rankings updates yesterday with outfield and today we’re hitting the mound.

• Outfielders
• Starting Pitchers

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:

• Paul Sporer
• Jeff Zimmerman
• Zach Sanders
• Mike Podhorzer
• Dan Schwartz
• Paul Kastava
• Justin Mason

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
• AVG– the average minus the high and low rankings
• SPLIT– the difference between the high and low rankings

First Base – March Update

	PLAYER	Jeff	Zach	Dan	Mike	Brad	Paul S	Paul K	Justin	AVG	Adj. AVG	Split
1	Paul Goldschmidt	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1.0	1.0	0
2	Anthony Rizzo	2	3	2	2	3	3	2	2	2.4	2.4	1
3	Miguel Cabrera	3	9	3	3	2	2	3	3	3.6	2.8	7
4	Jose Abreu	4	2	5	6	6	4	4	5	4.4	4.6	4
5	Edwin Encarnacion	5	5	4	5	4	6	5	4	4.9	4.8	2
6	Joey Votto	6	6	6	7	7	5	6	7	6.1	6.2	2
7	Chris Davis	12	4	7	4	5	8	9	6	7.0	6.6	8
8	Prince Fielder	7	12	8	8	14	7	8	8	9.1	8.6	7
9	David Ortiz	9	11	9	11	10	9	10	13	9.9	9.8	2
10	Freddie Freeman	10	10	12	13	9	13	7	9	10.6	10.8	6
11	Eric Hosmer	11	8	10	12	12	11	12	10	10.9	11.2	4
12	Adrian Gonzalez	13	14	11	10	13	10	11	12	11.7	11.6	4
13	Buster Posey	19	7	14	9	8	12	16	14	12.1	11.8	12
14	Albert Pujols	8	18	13	15	20	14	13	11	14.4	14.6	12
15	Brandon Belt	20	16	15	16	11	16	14	15	15.4	15.4	9
16	Kendrys Morales	15	15	16	14	17	17	22	18	16.6	16.0	8
17	Carlos Santana	21	20	17	23	15	15	20	16	18.7	18.6	8
18	Lucas Duda	26	17	18	17	16	24	18	17	19.4	18.8	10
19	Mark Trumbo	14	13	20	24	35	20	19	19	20.7	19.4	22
20	Victor Martinez	17	29	19	25	25	21	15	23	21.6	21.4	14
21	Daniel Murphy	16	19	23	18	24	36	23	30	22.7	21.4	20
22	Mark Teixeira	23	36	21	33	19	19	17	22	24.0	23.0	19
23	Wil Myers	18	37	22	19	38	18	21	25	24.7	23.4	20
24	Justin Turner	25	35	28	22	27	30	25	35	27.4	27.0	13
25	Adam Lind	28	28	29	34	22	26	28	21	27.9	27.8	12
26	Mitch Moreland	29	26	25	26	37	28	26	28	28.1	27.0	12
27	Byung-ho Park	32	25	27	31	31	25	32	20	29.0	29.2	7
28	Stephen Piscotty	40	30	24	21	21	34	35	26	29.3	28.8	19
29	Brian McCann	31	27	30	35	18	37	30	27	29.7	30.6	19
30	Chris Carter	24	24	36	28	30	40	27	24	29.9	29.0	16
31	Ryan Zimmerman	36	42	31	20	26	23	34	29	30.3	30.0	22
32	Trevor Plouffe	27	22	32	29	43	31	29	31	30.4	29.6	21
33	Justin Bour	35	23	26	39	36	22	33	39	30.6	30.6	17
34	Joe Mauer	33	31	42	27	43	35	31	36	34.6	34.4	16
35	Logan Forsythe	34	34	33	30	34	42	39	40	35.1	34.8	12
36	C.J. Cron	30	32	40	32	33	50	36	34	36.1	34.6	20
37	Stephen Vogt	47	40	37	36	23	29	43	51	36.4	37.0	24
38	Matt Adams	22	62	41	38	29	39	24	51	36.4	34.2	40
39	Mark Canha	39	21	39	51	43	44	40	44	39.6	41.0	30
40	Mike Napoli	42	47	38	43	32	33	45	38	40.0	40.2	15
41	Pedro Alvarez	41	54	44	40	41	27	38	45	40.7	40.8	27
42	Brandon Moss	50	43	35	49	28	38	49	33	41.7	42.8	22
43	Yonder Alonso	43	38	46	41	43	43	44	51	42.6	42.8	8
44	Adam LaRoche	37	45	43	57	43	46	37	51	44.0	42.8	20
45	Yangervis Solarte	51	33	49	37	43	41	55	37	44.1	44.2	22
46	Luis Valbuena	38	41	45	42	43	59	41	46	44.1	42.4	21
47	Ben Paulsen	55	44	50	45	43	32	52	41	45.9	46.8	23
48	Ryan Howard	44	49	47	46	42	47	47	47	46.0	46.2	7
49	Chris Colabello	54	46	34	53	43	48	50	32	46.9	48.0	20
50	Logan Morrison	49	60	51	44	40	45	54	43	49.0	48.6	20