Updated Consensus Ranks: Shortstop

Should you short stop or just stop short? This year the position feels like it’s an injury magnet, even if the evidence doesn’t necessarily point to shortstops being injured more often.

But there you have Hanley Ramirez, Jose Reyes and Derek Jeter dropping because of injury. That’s allowed players that are not even performing well — Asdrubal Cabrera, I’m looking at you — to move up just because they didn’t go down with an ailment. Health is a thing. Troy Tulowitzki always had number one talent, and his health makes him number one now.

That isn’t to say that there aren’t any superlative performances that have pushed the needle. Ian Desmond is proving last year was no fluke, Josh Rutledge has shown enough power and speed for most of us to believe, and Jean Segura — though not a 25 homer hitting shortstop — has exceeded even our semi-lofty expectations. Maybe Andrelton Simmons will be next.

The top 12 is an argument against positional scarcity. Number ten should still be an asset in all five categories. But get down into the high teens and low twenties — where you only-leaguers with MI slots are hanging out — and it gets dicey. Ruben Tejada! Cliff Pennington! Zack Cozart!

Good luck.

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.

These players appeared on one ranker’s list: Jurickson Profar, Leury Garcia, Alen Hanson, Pedro Ciriaco, Josh Prince, Eduardo Nunez, Rafael Furcal, Sean Rodriguez, Pete Kozma, and Hiroyuki Nakajima.