Rotographs Rankings First Run – Second Basemen

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-today)
• Third Base (Jan. 28)
• DH (Jan. 29)
• Reliever (Jan. 29 courtesy of the Bullpen Report crew)

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
• Jeff Zimmerman
• Zach Sanders
• Mike Podhorzer
• Dan Schwartz
• 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 50 for Zach, 56 for Dan, 46 for Mike, 48 for Brad, and 46 for Paul K. Everyone in the top 50 was on the lists of Jeff and myself so we don’t have any +1s. 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

Second Basemen – January Edition

	PLAYER	Jeff	Zach	Dan	Mike	Brad	Paul	Paul K	AVG	Adj. AVG	Split
1	Jose Altuve	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1.0	1.0	0
2	Dee Gordon	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2.0	2.0	0
3	Robinson Cano	3	4	3	3	4	3	3	3.3	3.2	1
4	Ian Kinsler	4	3	4	4	8	5	5	4.7	4.4	5
5	Rougned Odor	5	6	5	6	10	6	4	6.0	5.6	6
6	Jason Kipnis	6	5	6	5	3	10	8	6.1	6.0	7
7	Anthony Rendon	11	12	7	8	5	4	6	7.6	7.4	8
8	Brian Dozier	7	10	10	7	6	9	9	8.3	8.4	4
9	Dustin Pedroia	9	8	9	10	9	11	10	9.4	9.4	3
10	Matt Carpenter	12	9	11	9	7	7	13	9.7	9.6	6
11	Daniel Murphy	8	11	8	11	14	19	11	11.7	11.0	11
12	Ben Zobrist	13	15	12	16	11	12	12	13.0	12.8	5
13	Josh Harrison	10	13	13	12	17	24	7	13.7	13.0	17
14	Kolten Wong	14	16	15	18	13	20	16	16.0	15.8	7
15	DJ LeMahieu	15	7	17	17	20	21	17	16.3	17.2	14
16	Howie Kendrick	20	19	16	15	18	17	14	17.0	17.0	6
17	Starlin Castro	16	20	14	20	24	16	19	18.4	18.2	10
18	Joe Panik	26	17	24	21	12	13	18	18.7	18.6	14
19	Neil Walker	23	14	26	14	16	18	20	18.7	18.2	12
20	Brett Lawrie	19	18	18	13	32	15	21	19.4	18.2	19
21	Addison Russell	25	22	23	22	22	8	22	20.6	22.2	17
22	Brandon Phillips	18	25	19	19	23	27	15	20.9	20.8	12
23	Logan Forsythe	24	21	27	24	21	22	24	23.3	23.0	6
24	Jonathan Schoop	28	24	28	26	19	14	32	24.4	25.0	18
25	Trea Turner	17	23	20	25	35	39	23	26.0	25.2	22
26	Martin Prado	27	26	25	28	25	29	25	26.4	26.2	4
27	Cory Spangenberg	21	27	22	23	41	26	29	27.0	25.4	20
28	Scooter Gennett	22	33	21	27	40	25	28	28.0	27.0	19
29	Brad Miller	30	28	31	29	15	34	30	28.1	29.6	19
30	Chris Owings	29	34	29	30	30	28	38	31.1	30.4	10
31	Enrique Hernandez	40	32	41	35	38	23	26	33.6	34.2	18
32	Chase Utley	37	29	38	36	31	33	31	33.6	33.6	9
33	Johnny Giavotella	31	36	35	37	48	38	27	34.0	34.8	21
34	Javier Baez	32	50	30	46	36	40	33	34.2	33.7	20
35	Jace Peterson	36	50	33	31	39	37	34	35.0	35.0	19
36	Yangervis Solarte	33	43	36	33	37	31	46	35.5	34.8	15
37	Eduardo Escobar	39	31	39	41	28	44	42	37.7	38.4	16
38	Cesar Hernandez	41	35	45	43	27	36	39	38.0	38.8	18
39	Jose Ramirez	34	37	32	40	48	57	35	39.2	36.5	25
40	Devon Travis	52	41	50	32	26	35	44	40.0	40.4	26
41	Steve Pearce	35	44	37	34	44	53	37	40.6	39.4	19
42	Wilmer Flores	38	38	40	42	46	48	36	41.1	40.8	12
43	Jose Peraza	42	50	34	39	43	49	40	41.2	41.0	16
44	Danny Espinosa	55	50	52	38	33	30	46	41.6	41.0	25
45	Brock Holt	48	30	49	45	29	51	41	41.9	42.6	22
46	Ryan Goins	47	49	48	46	34	43	43	43.8	45.3	15
47	Omar Infante	43	39	42	44	45	52	46	44.2	43.5	13
48	Kelly Johnson	64	50	56	46	42	32	46	46.0	42.0	32
49	Chris Coghlan	50	47	56	46	48	42	46	46.3	47.0	14
50	Aaron Hill	46	45	47	46	48	50	45	46.6	46.0	5