Rotographs Rankings Update
by Paul Sporer
March 28, 2015
Hey y’all, I mentioned in my chat that I’d get a ranking update out there ASAP. I wanted to finish last night, but I couldn’t. This is a little dirtier than our original ranks for two reasons: 1) only three rankers involve and 2) I didn’t have time to weave the three together for a composite as Zach and Dan sent me files and I had mine on a separate file. Given the time crunch I’m in to get this out for y’all, I just put all of ours on one file, but separately. I can clean it up next week, but here it is for now! Oh and there’s no overall, but frankly I think positional rankings are much more useful. Again, I know it’s a little dirty, but I wanted to get something out for everyone.
Would anyone really take Alexei Ramirez over Troy Tulowitzki? The injury risk doesn’t even come close to making up for how much better Tulo is.
Totally agree–that’s just asinine
You guys haven’t heard? Zach has developed the ability to predict future injury, but is going to keep writing about fantasy baseball instead of selling those skills to MLB teams.
Yeah, that’s just goofy and really, well…
Ditto – can’t take the rankings seriously after that
Well y’all got two other guys to look at on there. I know some don’t agree with Zach, but he was clowned pretty hard last year for his Altuve (too high allegedly) & Cargo (too low) rankings and those panned out so maybe he is onto something with some of these.
What a bunch of horsehit.
There’s a legit case to be made that Ramirez should be ranked higher, and anyone who says otherwise is basically just being supremely closed-minded.
“The injury risk doesn’t even come close to making up for how much better Tulo is.”
Huh, I wonder what happened last year then?
http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/end-of-season-fantasy-baseball-rankings-values-shortstops/
Ramirez was worth 30% more than Tulowitzki last year, even with Tulo having ridiculous BABIP luck driving his numbers (especially BA) to heights he won’t reach again. There’s your injury risk. And not only was Ramirez worth more, he clocked Tulo by over nearly five bucks in value.
And don’t forget, if you’re in any sort of reasonably deep league (10-12 team AL or NL, for example), when Tulo is out, you get to most likely put some negative value schlub in there, further degrading the value you get with Tulo at SS.
Ramirez has played 158 games each of the least four years.
I’m not saying I would rank Ramirez ahead of Tulowitzki necessarily. But there is certainly an argument to be made in favor of it. The knee-jerk reaction claiming otherwise is goofy and wrong.
EDIT: ” And not only was Ramirez worth more, he clocked Tulo by nearly five bucks in value.” (Omit the word “over”, for obvious reasons…)
Losing Tulo would really hurt in an AL only league huh?
Well, Dan left Hanley off his SS list altogether, so I suppose there are questions to be asked all around.
He has Hanley as an OF.
http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/end-of-season-fantasy-baseball-rankings-values-shortstops/
So it would also be reasonable to rank Adam LaRoche ahead of Paul Goldschmidt:
http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/end-of-season-fantasy-rankings-auction-values-first-basemen/