Rotographs Rankings First Run – Third Basemen

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January 28, 2016

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.

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, Dan, and Mike, 40 for Brad, and 48 for Paul K. 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

Third Baseman – January Edition
PLAYER Jeff Zach Dan Mike Brad Paul Paul K AVG Adj. AVG Split
1 Josh Donaldson 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 1.7 1.6 2
2 Manny Machado 2 2 2 3 1 1 4 2.1 2.0 3
3 Kris Bryant 1 3 3 4 3 5 1 2.9 2.8 4
4 Nolan Arenado 4 4 4 2 4 3 3 3.4 3.6 2
5 Todd Frazier 5 6 6 6 7 4 9 6.1 6.0 5
6 Adrian Beltre 7 7 5 5 6 10 5 6.4 6.0 5
7 Kyle Seager 8 8 7 7 8 8 6 7.4 7.6 2
8 Miguel Sano 6 5 10 10 5 13 11 8.6 8.4 8
9 Evan Longoria 9 10 8 8 9 7 10 8.7 8.8 3
10 Matt Carpenter 14 11 12 9 10 9 7 10.3 10.2 7
11 Anthony Rendon 13 14 9 12 12 6 8 10.6 10.8 8
12 Maikel Franco 11 9 13 11 11 11 12 11.1 11.2 4
13 Mike Moustakas 15 16 15 15 13 12 13 14.1 14.2 4
14 Daniel Murphy 10 13 11 14 18 18 21 15.0 14.8 11
15 Josh Harrison 12 15 14 13 22 20 14 15.7 15.2 10
16 Jung-ho Kang 16 18 16 16 16 14 16 16.0 16.0 4
17 David Wright 23 17 18 17 14 16 15 17.1 16.6 9
18 Matt Duffy 17 12 19 19 19 19 19 17.7 18.6 7
19 Pablo Sandoval 19 19 17 20 21 15 18 18.4 18.6 6
20 Justin Turner 18 21 20 24 15 17 17 18.9 18.6 9
21 Trevor Plouffe 22 22 21 21 25 21 24 22.3 22.0 4
22 Brett Lawrie 20 20 23 18 33 23 25 23.1 22.2 15
23 Nick Castellanos 25 29 26 22 17 24 20 23.3 23.4 12
24 Chase Headley 24 23 24 28 29 28 23 25.6 25.4 6
25 Yasmany Tomas 26 25 22 27 38 43 22 29.0 27.6 21
26 Cory Spangenberg 21 34 25 25 40 26 32 29.0 28.4 19
27 Martin Prado 27 26 27 29 31 35 30 29.3 28.8 9
28 Luis Valbuena 28 24 33 35 26 34 27 29.6 29.6 11
29 Jake Lamb 30 30 28 32 28 39 28 30.7 29.6 11
30 Jed Lowrie 31 27 35 30 32 27 35 31.0 31.0 8
31 Danny Valencia 34 28 37 23 20 38 40 31.4 32.0 20
32 Yunel Escobar 32 32 34 37 37 31 29 33.1 33.2 8
33 David Freese 33 31 32 38 34 36 34 34.0 33.8 7
34 Yangervis Solarte 37 40 38 31 30 29 39 34.9 35.0 11
35 Lonnie Chisenhall 36 36 40 26 40 41 37 36.6 37.8 15
36 Hector Olivera 40 33 30 33 40 45 36 36.7 36.4 15
37 Javier Baez 35 41 29 47 36 44 33 37.9 37.8 18
38 Joey Gallo 43 42 31 42 40 48 26 38.9 39.6 22
39 Adonis Garcia 29 39 36 36 40 51 41 38.9 38.4 22
40 Cesar Hernandez 44 37 46 47 23 42 42 40.1 42.2 24
41 Derek Dietrich 53 47 47 47 27 30 43 42.0 42.8 26
42 Giovanny Urshela 45 46 44 39 40 33 48 42.1 42.8 15
43 Mark Reynolds 49 47 47 46 40 37 31 42.4 43.4 18
44 Brock Holt 51 35 47 47 24 47 46 42.4 44.4 27
45 Cody Asche 41 38 41 43 40 52 45 42.9 42.0 14
46 Will Middlebrooks 46 47 45 34 40 40 48 42.9 43.6 14
47 Jonathan Villar 39 43 42 45 39 57 38 43.3 41.6 19
48 Jose Ramirez 38 45 39 44 40 50 48 43.4 43.2 12
49 Danny Espinosa 57 47 47 41 35 32 48 43.9 43.6 25
50 Marwin Gonzalez 47 47 47 47 40 49 48 46.4 47.2 9





 

Paul is the Editor of Rotographs and Content Director for OOTP Perfect Team. Follow Paul on Twitter @sporer and on Twitch at sporer.

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Steve
9 years ago

I’m surprised to see Bryant above Arenado in all but 2 rankings.

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Brad JohnsonMember
9 years ago
Reply to  Steve

The top 4 3B are nearly identically valued. You can “correctly” list them in any order.

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