Rotographs Rankings First Run – Relievers

Some of this is being repeated from the Primer piece that went up this morning. 

We’re bringing them to you earlier this year, but that also means that they’re far from set in stone so take that into consideration as you peruse them. There are still strong arms on the free agent market, let alone all the moving and shaking that happens once players start reporting to camp.

• Outfielder (Jan. 18)
• Starting Pitcher (Jan. 20)
• Shortstop (Jan. 22)
• First Base (Jan. 25)
• Catcher (Jan. 26)
• Second Base (Jan. 27)
• Third Base (Jan. 28)
• Reliever (Jan. 29 courtesy of the Bullpen Report crew-today)
• DH (Jan. 29-later today)

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.

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• Paul Sporer
• Alan Harrison
• Darren Schienbein 
• Benjamin Pasinkoff
• Colin Zarzycki
• Brad Johnson
• Paul Kastava

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. Like I said, it’s early. Things are going to change.

The chart is sortable and by default it’s sorted by AVG. If a ranker didn’t rank someone that the others did, he was given that ranker’s last rank +1. That would be 61 for Alan and Paul K., 56 for Colin, 54 for Ben, and 51 for Brad. They are indicated in red on the chart.

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

Relievers – January Edition

	PLAYER	Paul S	Alan	Paul K	Darren	Colin	Benjamin	Brad	AVG	Adj. AVG	Split
1	Kenley Jansen	2	1	3	1	3	1	2	1.9	1.8	2
2	Wade Davis	1	2	1	3	1	2	3	1.9	1.8	2
3	Craig Kimbrel	3	4	4	2	2	4	1	2.9	3.0	3
4	Aroldis Chapman	5	3	2	7	4	3	4	4.0	3.8	5
5	Zach Britton	4	7	6	4	6	5	5	5.3	5.2	3
6	Ken Giles	6	5	5	6	5	7	7	5.9	5.8	2
7	Jeurys Familia	10	6	7	5	9	6	10	7.6	7.6	5
8	Cody Allen	8	11	10	8	7	10	6	8.6	8.6	5
9	Trevor Rosenthal	7	9	9	10	11	11	8	9.3	9.4	4
10	David Robertson	9	10	8	11	10	8	11	9.6	9.6	3
11	Mark Melancon	14	8	13	9	13	9	9	10.7	10.6	6
12	Hector Rondon	11	12	11	13	16	14	13	12.9	12.6	5
13	A.J. Ramos	12	13	12	12	14	12	18	13.3	12.6	6
14	Brad Boxberger	18	18	17	15	8	13	17	15.1	16.0	10
15	Francisco Rodriguez	15	19	14	14	15	15	20	16.0	15.6	6
16	Huston Street	17	14	15	19	19	18	19	17.3	17.6	5
17	Glen Perkins	24	16	18	24	12	16	12	17.4	17.2	12
18	Shawn Tolleson	19	15	16	16	18	17	29	18.6	17.2	14
19	Carter Capps	13	20	20	23	26	25	15	20.3	20.6	13
20	Dellin Betances	16	24	22	17	22	20	24	20.7	21.0	8
21	Jonathan Papelbon	21	21	23	21	23	22	22	21.9	21.8	2
22	Andrew Miller	26	17	28	18	21	28	16	22.0	22.0	12
23	Sean Doolittle	20	23	22	25	17	21	30	22.6	22.2	13
24	Drew Storen	22	22	25	22	32	23	23	24.1	23.0	10
25	Steve Cishek	25	26	26	20	27	27	28	25.6	26.2	8
26	Santiago Casilla	30	27	19	27	28	24	25	25.7	26.2	11
27	Jake McGee	29	40	37	32	24	19	14	27.9	28.2	26
28	Will Smith	33	32	24	34	20	34	21	28.3	28.8	14
29	Jason Grilli	23	25	27	26	42	29	34	29.4	28.2	19
30	David Hernandez	27	29	29	28	35	31	31	30.0	29.6	8
31	Fernando Rodney	28	28	30	29	36	32	32	30.7	30.2	8
32	Arodys Vizcaino	34	31	33	31	37	26	26	31.1	31.0	11
33	Brad Ziegler	39	35	39	30	29	40	27	34.1	34.4	13
34	Joaquin Benoit	33	33	31	38	33	37	37	34.6	34.6	7
35	Corey Knebel	32	30	32	37	39	39	36	35.0	35.2	9
36	Jumbo Diaz	35	34	36	33	31	35	45	35.6	34.6	14
37	Jeremy Jeffress	34	38	40	35	30	33	51	37.3	36.0	21
38	Tony Watson	38	37	34	36	40	41	38	37.7	37.8	7
39	Darren O’Day	41	39	35	40	43	38	39	39.3	39.4	8
40	Hunter Strickland	31	36	43	44	34	36	51	39.3	38.6	20
41	Roberto Osuna	47	41	61	41	25	30	51	42.3	42.0	36
42	Ryan Madson	44	45	41	45	52	44	33	43.4	43.8	19
43	Nate Jones	43	52	42	39	47	54	35	44.6	44.6	19
44	Jason Motte	37	44	38	44	56	42	51	44.6	43.8	19
45	Joakim Soria	46	46	45	49	41	43	51	45.9	45.8	10
46	Joe Smith	45	53	44	47	51	54	46	48.6	48.4	10
47	Kevin Quackenbush	51	43	47	61	44	45	51	48.9	47.6	18
48	Koji Uehara	50	47	46	42	56	50	51	48.9	48.8	14
49	Kevin Jepsen	48	42	60	46	56	51	47	50.0	49.6	18
50	Brett Cecil	42	58	61	54	49	47	48	51.3	51.2	19