Rotographs Rankings First Run – Shortstops
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-today)
- First Base (Jan. 25)
- Catcher (Jan. 26)
- Second Base (Jan. 27)
- 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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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 47 for Zach, 52 for Dan, 48 for Brad, and 51 for Paul K. Everyone in the top 50 were on the lists of Jeff and myself so we don’t have any +1s.
Mike’s SS rankings will be in the next run.
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
Jeff | Zach | Dan | Brad | Paul S | Paul K | AVG | Adj. AVG | SPLIT | ||
1 | Carlos Correa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0 |
2 | Xander Bogaerts | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1 |
3 | Francisco Lindor | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4 |
4 | Troy Tulowitzki | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 2 |
5 | Corey Seager | 8 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 4 |
6 | Ian Desmond | 10 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7 |
7 | Jung-ho Kang | 6 | 12 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8 |
8 | Elvis Andrus | 4 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 9.3 | 9.3 | 11 |
9 | Marcus Semien | 13 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 11.0 | 11.3 | 5 |
10 | Jhonny Peralta | 18 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 11.2 | 10.5 | 11 |
11 | Starlin Castro | 7 | 14 | 9 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 11.5 | 11.5 | 9 |
12 | Jose Reyes | 12 | 13 | 5 | 24 | 12 | 13 | 13.2 | 12.5 | 19 |
13 | Addison Russell | 19 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 16 | 13.3 | 14.0 | 14 |
14 | Ketel Marte | 15 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 25 | 10 | 13.8 | 12.5 | 17 |
15 | Alcides Escobar | 17 | 18 | 13 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 16.3 | 16.3 | 7 |
16 | Brandon Crawford | 30 | 16 | 28 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 18.5 | 18.8 | 24 |
17 | Alexei Ramirez | 16 | 23 | 16 | 26 | 19 | 17 | 19.5 | 18.8 | 10 |
18 | Trea Turner | 11 | 17 | 19 | 29 | 30 | 12 | 19.7 | 19.3 | 19 |
19 | Brad Miller | 26 | 21 | 27 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 20.7 | 20.8 | 13 |
20 | Jean Segura | 14 | 9 | 17 | 36 | 27 | 22 | 20.8 | 20.0 | 27 |
21 | Eugenio Suarez | 29 | 25 | 27 | 9 | 23 | 24 | 22.8 | 24.8 | 20 |
22 | Jed Lowrie | 28 | 20 | 26 | 17 | 28 | 19 | 23.0 | 23.3 | 11 |
23 | Asdrubal Cabrera | 27 | 19 | 22 | 32 | 18 | 21 | 23.2 | 22.3 | 14 |
24 | Didi Gregorius | 25 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 17 | 26 | 23.7 | 24.5 | 10 |
25 | Erick Aybar | 22 | 27 | 21 | 25 | 26 | 28 | 24.8 | 25.0 | 7 |
26 | Jose Iglesias | 20 | 24 | 18 | 33 | 32 | 23 | 25.0 | 24.8 | 15 |
27 | Andrelton Simmons | 23 | 22 | 20 | 34 | 31 | 25 | 25.8 | 25.3 | 14 |
28 | Chris Owings | 24 | 26 | 23 | 37 | 21 | 27 | 26.3 | 25.0 | 16 |
29 | Javier Baez | 9 | 45 | 29 | 38 | 33 | 29 | 30.5 | 32.3 | 36 |
30 | Jimmy Rollins | 21 | 36 | 24 | 30 | 42 | 34 | 31.2 | 31.0 | 21 |
31 | Adeiny Hechavarria | 34 | 29 | 34 | 35 | 24 | 33 | 31.5 | 32.5 | 11 |
32 | J.J. Hardy | 36 | 32 | 31 | 19 | 44 | 31 | 32.2 | 32.5 | 25 |
33 | Zack Cozart | 32 | 33 | 33 | 22 | 34 | 40 | 32.3 | 33.0 | 18 |
34 | Eduardo Escobar | 42 | 28 | 32 | 23 | 35 | 39 | 33.2 | 33.5 | 19 |
35 | Danny Espinosa | 33 | 47 | 52 | 28 | 20 | 35 | 35.8 | 35.8 | 32 |
36 | Enrique Hernandez | 43 | 30 | 39 | 39 | 22 | 43 | 36.0 | 37.8 | 21 |
37 | Jonathan Villar | 35 | 38 | 37 | 40 | 40 | 38 | 38.0 | 38.3 | 5 |
38 | Jose Ramirez | 31 | 46 | 30 | 48 | 43 | 30 | 38.0 | 37.5 | 18 |
39 | Wilmer Flores | 40 | 35 | 36 | 41 | 45 | 32 | 38.2 | 38.0 | 13 |
40 | Cesar Hernandez | 44 | 40 | 45 | 18 | 37 | 46 | 38.3 | 41.5 | 28 |
41 | Brock Holt | 49 | 31 | 50 | 21 | 36 | 49 | 39.3 | 41.3 | 29 |
42 | Nick Ahmed | 38 | 34 | 35 | 45 | 53 | 41 | 41.0 | 39.8 | 19 |
43 | Jordy Mercer | 37 | 39 | 44 | 44 | 48 | 37 | 41.5 | 41.0 | 11 |
44 | Marwin Gonzalez | 46 | 47 | 42 | 48 | 38 | 36 | 42.8 | 43.3 | 12 |
45 | Danny Santana | 39 | 37 | 38 | 48 | 61 | 42 | 44.2 | 41.8 | 24 |
46 | Freddy Galvis | 41 | 41 | 46 | 42 | 50 | 47 | 44.5 | 44.0 | 9 |
47 | Ryan Goins | 47 | 47 | 48 | 31 | 51 | 51 | 45.8 | 48.3 | 20 |
48 | Jedd Gyorko | 54 | 47 | 43 | 48 | 39 | 45 | 46.0 | 45.8 | 15 |
49 | Trevor Story | 52 | 47 | 52 | 46 | 29 | 51 | 46.2 | 49.0 | 23 |
50 | Tyler Saladino | 48 | 42 | 49 | 48 | 41 | 51 | 46.5 | 46.8 | 10 |
Machado gained SS elig last year on yahoo. Sadly it was after i traded him away in a keeper league.