Updated Consensus Ranks: First Base

It’s time to update the rankings!

Hopefully these rankings will allow you to find your own buy-low and sell-high opportunities. The disagreements between our different rankers should help. Jeff Zimmerman’s rankings are largely built upon a mix of Steamer and ZiPs, Zach Sanders has his own secret sauce, and Mike Podhorzer and I are a little more intuitive, even while we both use the projections as a basis. Hopefully we are representative of the different types of fantasy managers out there.

The first basemen shuffled the cards around a bit, but the elite are still the elite… except for one Anthony Rizzo, who is zooming up the ranks. To the point where we are wondering if he’s the number one fantasy first baseman going forward. Well, someone knew it was coming, and yet that same someone wouldn’t yet make Rizzo the number one guy. There are still the matter of his strikeouts and his final batting average.

There are some dramatic movers and shakers in the rest of the rankings. Chris Davis looks like a new man according to his plate discipline stats, and Mark Reynolds might have proven that his power would translate to a tougher home park. Ike Davis looks whiffy and Paul Konerko looks old.

Who do you like more than our rankers? Less?

With the color-coding we hope to highlight the biggest movers. That definition changes as you follow the ranks down the list — players had to move more to register a color change as you near the bottom of the list. These are rest-of-season rankings for 5×5 roto.

Other first basemen that appeared on one ranker’s list: Jordan Pacheco, Carlos Pena, Chris Parmelee, Luke Scott and Justin Smoak. No, no Mike Jacobs.