Positional Rankings

By Arlo Vander

One cheat sheet is good, but seven are better. To create these lists, seven fantasy veterans each ranked the top players at every position, and the results were then averaged to create a composite set of rankings. In doing so, a far more objective ranking can be compiled then by simply using one expert’s lists, yet individual preferences and sleepers can still be seen. Please note that this is a tool for draft preparation; it will not be updated throughout the season.

Each player was assigned a rank by all seven drafters; the lower this score compared with other players at the same position, the better. Average rank indicates the average of the scores assigned to a player by each person. Individual preferences can be seen in the seven columns at the right.

C 1B 2B 3B SS OF SP RP

CATCHERS	Avg Rank	Lo	DK	Sox	roto	rj	HOOT	BigL
Jorge Posada	1.29	1	1	1	1	3	1	1
Mike Piazza	2.43	3	2	2	2	2	3	3
Ivan Rodriguez	2.57	2	3	5	3	1	2	2
Javy Lopez	4.00	4	4	3	4	5	4	4
Jason Varitek	4.86	5	5	4	6	4	5	5
Mike Lieberthal	7.29	6	6	8	7	12	6	6
Ramon Hernandez	7.43	7	9	6	10	6	7	7
Jason Kendall	8.14	8	7	10	5	10	8	9
AJ Pierzynski	9.57	10	8	15	9	8	9	8
Paul LoDuca	12.29	11	14	9	16	14	12	10
Matt LeCroy	12.71	12	10		12	7	10	12
Joe Mauer	15.43	9	17	11	17	13	19	22
Toby Hall	16.29	17	19	12	13	15	13	25
Victor Martinez	16.43	20	13	19	23	11	15	14
Robby Hammock	17.14	14	22	18	14	22	11	19
Bengie Molina	17.29	13	16	16	15		14	21
Greg Myers	17.43	19	11	17		18	16	15
Benito Santiago	17.43	18	15	14	20	21	17	17
Charles Johnson	18.43	22	18	7	18	16	25	23
Jason Phillips	18.57	16	12		8			16
Jason LaRue	18.86	23	20	13	22	20	23	11
Craig Wilson	19.86	15			11	9
Michael Barrett	22.57			20			21	13
Johnny Estrada	23.00		23	23	19		18
Miguel Olivo	23.29	21		22	25	17
Ramon Castro	24.00			25		19		20
Chad Moeller	24.43			21			20
Vance Wilson	24.71					25		18
Damian Miller	24.86		24	24	24		24
Brian Schneider	25.00				21			24
Mike Matheny	25.29		21
Eddie Perez	25.43						22
Brandon Inge	25.57					23
Kevin Cash	25.71					24
Brad Ausmus	25.71	24
Einar Diaz	25.86		25
Yorvit Torrealba	25.86	25

FIRST BASEMEN	Avg Rank	L o	D K	S o x	r o t o	r j	H O O T	B i g L
Albert Pujols	1.29	1	1	1	3	1	1	1
Todd Helton	1.86	2	2	2	1	2	2	2
Carlos Delgado	3.57	3	3	3	4	3	5	4
Jim Thome	3.86	5	4	4	2	5	4	3
Jason Giambi	5.00	4	6	6	5	4	3	7
Richie Sexson	6.14	6	8	5	6	6	7	5
Aubrey Huff	7.43	7	7	9	8	7	8	6
Jeff Bagwell	7.57	9	5	7	9	9	6	8
Derrek Lee	9.00	10	9	8	7	8	12	9
Frank Thomas	11.14	13	11	10	10	12	10	12
Mark Teixeira	11.14	8	10	14	13	10	13	10
Mike Sweeney	12.29	14	12	11	14	11	11	13
Rafael Palmeiro	12.43	11	13	15	12	13	9	14
Phil Nevin	14.00	12	15	12	17	17	14	11
David Ortiz	15.00	15	17	13	11	14	19	16
Ryan Klesko	15.57	16	14	18	15	16	15	15
Kevin Millar	18.71	20	20	16	16	20	20	19
Paul Konerko	19.14	19	16		19	18	18	18
Nick Johnson	20.00	21		17	18	19	17	22
Shea Hillenbrand	21.86	18		19	23	21		20
Jeff Conine	22.71	23	21	22	25		21	21
Adam Dunn	22.71	22		24	20	24		17
Dmitri Young	23.29		18			15
Erubiel Durazo	23.57	25	23		21	25	22	23
Sean Casey	24.29	24	22	23			23	i
Raul Ibanez	24.43	17			24
John Olerud	24.57						16
Darin Erstad	24.86			21		23
Jason Phillips	25.00		19
Andres Galarraga	25.14			20
Jay Gibbons	25.43					22
Brad Fullmer	25.43				22
Doug Mientkiewicz	25.57		24					25
Randall Simon	25.71						24
Travis Lee	25.71							24
Hee Seop Choi	25.86						25
Paul LoDuca	25.86			25
Scott Spiezio	25.86		25

SECOND BASEMEN	Avg Rank	L o	D K	S o x	r o t o	r j	H O O T	B i g L
Alfonso Soriano	1.00	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Jeff Kent	2.43	2	3	2	3	2	3	2
Bret Boone	2.57	3	2	3	2	3	2	3
Marcus Giles	4.86	6	4	4	4	7	4	5
Jose Vidro	5.71	4	7	6	6	5	5	7
Aaron Boone	6.29	7	9	5	5	4	8	6
Luis Castillo	6.29	5	8	8	7	6	6	4
Michael Young	7.71	8	6	7	8	8	7	10
Ray Durham	11.14	12	10	14	9	12	12	9
Mark Loretta	12.00	14	13	12	10	13	11	11
Adam Kennedy	12.71	10	16	13	11	17	9	13
Placido Polanco	13.71	15	11	10	14	16	18	12
D’Angelo Jimenez	15.29	16	18	11	16	15	17	14
Jerry Hairston Jr.	15.43	17		15	17	11	14	8
Todd Walker	15.43	13	12	17	15		10	15
Roberto Alomar	15.71	24	17	16	12	10	15	16
Jose Reyes	15.71	9	5	9		9
Junior Spivey	18.29	11	19		18	23	13	18
Orlando Hudson	21.43	23		23	13	18	24	23
Marlon Anderson	21.86	18	15				16
Eric Young	22.00	21			22	14		19
Luis Rivas	22.29		25	18	20	19	22
Mark Grudzielanek	22.29		14	19	25		20
Fernando Vina	22.43			20	19		19	21
Mark Ellis	23.43		21	24	21	20
Desi Relaford	23.43	19				22	25	20
Matt Kata	23.86		20	22		21
Chase Utley	24.14		22	25		24	21	25
Brian Roberts	24.14	20			24		23	24
Mark DeRosa	25.29					25		22
Freddy Sanchez	25.29			21
Pokey Reese	25.43	22
Ronnie Belliard	25.57				23
Joe Thurston	25.57		23
Aaron Miles	25.71		24
Rickie Weeks	25.86	25

THIRD BASEMEN	Avg Rank	L o	D K	S o x	r o t o	r j	H O O T	B i g L
Scott Rolen	1.00	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Eric Chavez	2.29	2	2	4	2	2	2	2
Mike Lowell	3.43	3	5	2	3	5	3	3
Hank Blalock	4.43	5	4	6	4	3	4	5
Aaron Boone	5.86	9	6	5	5	4	6	6
Troy Glaus	6.14	8	3	3	8	7	7	7
Aramis Ramirez	6.57	7	8	8	6	8	5	4
Morgan Ensberg	9.71	12	9	14	9	6	10	8
Eric Hinske	12.14	15	20	10	12	11	8	9
Bill Mueller	12.14	10	12	7	11	19	11	15
Miguel Cabrera	14.43	6	11	11		9		12
Joe Crede	14.71	17	14	17	14	10	13	18
Dmitri Young	15.00	13	10	9	10			11
Mark Teixeira	15.14	4	7		7			10
Corey Koskie	15.57	14	16	13	13	18	9
Tony Batista	16.29	18	13	16	19	16	18	14
Vinny Castilla	16.43	19	18	15	18	15	14	16
Shea Hillenbrand	17.29	11	17		15	13		13
Sean Burroughs	19.14	16		18	17	17	20	20
Edgardo Alfonzo	20.00	23		19	16	24	15	17
Joe Randa	20.00	21	19	21	20	22	12	25
Adrian Beltre	20.29	24		20	21	12	17	22
Alex Cintron	22.57	20	22	12
Placido Polanco	22.71		15			14
Eric Munson	23.29				24		16	19
Scott Spiezio	23.43	22	23		22		19
Wes Helms	23.71	25		22	23	25	24	21
Ty Wigginton	24.00		24			21	21	24
Casey Blake	24.43		25			20	22
Robin Ventura	25.14		21		25
Brandon Larson	25.29			24		23
Mark DeRosa	25.43			25				23
Damian Rolls	25.57						23
Robby Hammock	25.57			23
Jose Hernandez	25.86						25

SHORTSTOPS	Avg Rank	L o	D K	S o x	r o t o	r j	H O O T	B i g L
Alex Rodriguez	1.00	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Nomar Garciaparra	2.00	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Edgar Renteria	3.43	3	3	3	3	4	4	4
Miguel Tejada	3.86	5	4	5	4	3	3	3
Derek Jeter	4.86	4	6	4	5	5	5	5
Orlando Cabrera	6.29	7	5	7	6	7	6	6
Rafael Furcal	7.29	6	9	6	7	8	8	7
Angel Berroa	8.57	8	10	8	9	9	7	9
Jose Reyes	9.57	10	7	10	10	10	12	8
Kazuo Matsui	11.57	9	8	9	8	11		10
Alex Cintron	12.57	11	11	12	12	14	10	18
Rich Aurilia	13.57	15	15	15	13	13	9	15
Jimmy Rollins	14.57	14	12	11	14		14	11
Jose Valentin	15.00	13	13	17	11	15	16	20
Cristian Guzman	15.86	12	14	13		17	17	12
Alex Gonzalez – Fla	16.00	16	17	21	16	12	13	17
David Eckstein	17.00	20	20	14	15	18	18	14
Alex Gonzalez – ChN	17.71	17	18	19	19	23	15	13
Julio Lugo	18.43	22		18	17	19	11	16
Khalil Greene	19.57	19	16	20	25	16	20	21
Bobby Crosby	19.71	18		16	20	20	19	19
Chris Woodward	22.86	21	22	24	23	25	22	23
Aaron Boone	23.14					6
Carlos Guillen	23.43			23	21	21	25	22
Adam Everett	23.86	24	19	25	24		23
Omar Vizquel	24.14	23	25		22	24	24	25
Jack Wilson	24.86		23				21
Jose Hernandez	24.86				18
Royce Clayton	24.86		24	22				24
Tony Graffanino	25.29		21
Deivi Cruz	25.43					22
Mark DeRosa	25.86	25

OUTFIELDERS	Avg Rank	L o	D K	S o x	r o t o	r j	H O O T	B i g L
Albert Pujols	1.00	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Vladimir Guerrero	2.00	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Carlos Beltran	3.29	3	3	3	3	3	4	4
Barry Bonds	4.29	4	6	4	4	4	3	5
Manny Ramirez	5.57	6	7	8	5	5	5	3
Magglio Ordonez	6.14	7	5	5	6	6	8	6
Gary Sheffield	6.71	5	4	9	7	8	6	8
Sammy Sosa	8.86	10	11	12	8	7	7	7
Vernon Wells	9.00	9	8	6	12	9	10	9
Bobby Abreu	10.29	13	10	7	10	13	9	10
Preston Wilson	11.86	8	14	10	11	10	13	17
Brian Giles	12.14	15	16	11	9	11	12	11
Lance Berkman	13.86	12	19	15	15	12	11	13
Garret Anderson	14.00	16	12	13	13	14	14	16
Aubrey Huff	15.00	18	13	16	14	15	15	14
Ichiro	16.00	11	17	17	19	16	20	12
Andruw Jones	16.57	17	20	14	16	17	17	15
Juan Pierre	18.00	21	9	19	18	18	21	20
Chipper Jones	18.57	19	18	18	17	24	16	18
Jim Edmonds	22.00	20	21	23	21	26	18	25
Carlos Lee	22.14	14	23	24	23	27	22	22
Shawn Green	26.29	23	24	28	20		19	19
Trot Nixon	27.43	39	25	21	22	31	28	26
Carl Crawford	27.43	29	15	22		21	33	21
Hideki Matsui	27.57	25	33	20	25	25	31	34
Corey Patterson	30.57	33	26	25		23	26	30
Larry Walker	31.14	50	28	30	24	32	25	29
Luis Gonzalez	31.71	27	36	36	29	19	24
Rocco Baldelli	32.29		30	26	36	20	32	31
Johnny Damon	32.29	30	48	32	28	36	29	23
Jay Gibbons	35.43	37	47	37	31	38	30	28
Juan Gonzalez	35.71	26	29		37	43	23	41
Miguel Cabrera	36.71	22		38	40	39	40	27
Austin Kearns	36.86	31	22		48	28	39	39
Richard Hidalgo	38.43	36	37	33	43	42	35	43
Pat Burrell	38.71	40	31	43		44	38	24
Cliff Floyd	38.86	46	35	29	27	33
Shannon Stewart	40.29			41	38	30	36	35
Phil Nevin	40.43	24			26	29
Torii Hunter	40.57	32	39		46	35	45	36
Geoff Jenkins	41.00	38	32	46	42	48	37	44
Bernie Williams	41.00	35		35	34		34	47
Dmitri Young	42.43	28	38		45			33
Scott Podsednik	42.57		42	31		22	50
Kenny Lofton	43.14		34		32			32
Mark Teixeira	44.14		27	27
Reggie Sanders	44.14	41	40		44	45		37
Juan Encarnacion	44.43	49		39		41	42	38
Jacque Jones	45.14		49	40	39		41	45
Ken Griffey Jr.	46.00	47	44				27
Randy Winn	46.00	42			30		48	49
Jose Guillen	46.43	45	43	50		34
Moises Alou	47.00	43	45	47		46	47	50
Brad Wilkerson	47.29				35		46	46
Mike Cameron	47.57		50		47	40	43
Adam Dunn	48.00				49	50	44	40
Carl Everett	48.14	44	41					48
Marlon Byrd	48.29			34			49
Kevin Millar	48.43				33
Jeromy Burnitz	48.57	34
Milton Bradley	49.00					37
Alex Sanchez	49.14					47		42
Jay Payton	49.43			42		49
Raul Mondesi	49.57				41
Steve Finley	49.86			44	50
Dave Roberts	49.86		46	48
Melvin Mora	50.14			45
Raul Ibanez	50.29	48		49

STARTING PITCHERS	Avg Rank	L o	D K	S o x	r o t o	r j	H O O T	B i g L
Mark Prior	1.29	1	2	1	1	1	2	1
Pedro Martinez	1.86	2	1	2	2	2	1	3
Curt Schilling	3.43	3	6	3	3	4	3	2
Roy Halladay	4.14	4	3	4	4	3	4	7
Tim Hudson	6.57	6	4	6	9	7	8	6
Kerry Wood	6.86	8	7	5	6	5	9	8
Javier Vazquez	8.29	5	5	11	7	12	6	12
Mark Mulder	8.57	9	9	9	12	6	10	5
Mike Mussina	9.57	7	13	15	8	9	5	10
Jason Schmidt	9.71	11	10	7	5	11	11	13
Barry Zito	10.00	10	12	8	14	8	7	11
Randy Johnson	10.57	12	8	13	10	14	13	4
Roy Oswalt	11.57	14	11	10	13	10	14	9
Kevin Brown	14.86	13	22	14	15	13	12	15
Josh Beckett	17.14	16	17	20	11	20	17	19
Matt Morris	17.29	15	19	19	19	16	16	17
Bartolo Colon	18.57	20	26	12	17	19	22	14
Randy Wolf	19.57	18	16	24	23	17	19	20
Kevin Millwood	20.00	24	23	17	16	18	26	16
Hideo Nomo	22.43	23	20	18	20	25	23	28
Johan Santana	24.00	17		16	18	15	20	21
Wade Miller	24.57	27	27	23	27	23	27	18
Carlos Zambrano	25.71	22	25	25	34	24	21	29
Andy Pettitte	26.71	32	24	21	32	21	34	23
Jamie Moyer	27.29	25	14	33	25	32	29	33
Brandon Webb	28.57	21	33	37	29	22	18	40
Russ Ortiz	30.57	41	32	22	22	27	36	34
Woody Williams	32.29	31	30	26	31	42	31	35
Esteban Loaiza	32.57	26	28	47	24	30	30	43
Greg Maddux	32.71	29	15	31	33		24	36
Derek Lowe	34.43	35	21	27	36	43	38	41
Matt Clement	36.14	30	31	30	30		32	39
Vicente Padilla	36.29	40	46	45	26	36	37	24
Joel Pineiro	37.86	28	56		28	26	28	38
CC Sabathia	38.00	36	35	41	44	34	39	37
Jose Contreras	40.43	33	54	36	35	51	43	31
Mark Buehrle	41.71		44	29	37	33		27
Dontrelle Willis	41.86	34	52	44		29	25	48
Roger Clemens	43.29	19	18					22
Brett Myers	43.29	47	40	40	54	31	47	44
Sidney Ponson	44.29	39	57	35		28	33	57
Mike Hampton	44.57	53	37	52	40	40	60	30
Kip Wells	45.29	42	58		51	37	42	26
Ben Sheets	45.57	37	59	43	50	48	35	47
Jarrod Washburn	46.43	51		34	43	50	41	45
Jake Peavy	46.86	44	50		56	35	40	42
Mark Redman	47.43	60		39		38	48	25
Kelvim Escobar	47.71	45	49	42	59		46	32
Freddy Garcia	48.29	38	39		53	44	44	59
Odalis Perez	48.43	49		51	38	39	50	51
Brad Penny	50.14	48	51	49	41	45	56
Rich Harden	50.43	55	55	28	47		52	55
Tim Wakefield	50.86		43	38	46			46
Rafael Soriano	51.14		41		21	52
Livan Hernandez	51.29	43	29	55	58	59	54
Adam Eaton	52.71	50		50	57	41	49
Miguel Batista	53.14	52	42			56	51	49
Eric Milton	53.14	46	48		47		59	50
Al Leiter	54.00	58	38	53	52		55
Gil Meche	54.29	56	47	57	55	46	58
Jerome Williams	54.57	59	53	54	60	47	53	56
Brad Radke	55.00	54		46	45		57
Tom Glavine	55.71		34			60		52
David Wells	56.29			32		57
Brian Lawrence	56.57			56	42			54
Jeff Weaver	57.00					49	45
Steve Trachsel	57.43		36
Byung-Hyun Kim	58.71		45
Ted Lilly	59.14			48
Ramon Ortiz	59.29				49
Victor Zambrano	59.86					53
John Thompson	59.86							53
Tony Armas Jr.	60.00					54
Jon Garland	60.00					55		60
Cliff Lee	60.43		60					58
Jon Lieber	60.43	57
Oliver Perez	60.57					58
Kyle Lohse	60.57			58
Kazuhisa Ishii	60.71			59

RELIEF PITCHERS	Avg Rank	L o	D K	S o x	r o t o	r j	H O O T	B i g L
Eric Gagne	1.14	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Billy Wagner	2.71	2	3	5	2	3	3	1
John Smoltz	3.43	4	2	3	5	2	2	6
Mariano Rivera	4.00	5	5	2	3	4	4	5
Keith Foulke	4.00	3	4	4	4	5	5	3
Jason Isringhausen	6.86	8	6	6	8	8	8	4
Troy Percival	7.43	10	8	8	6	6	6	8
Octavio Dotel	9.71	6	7	15	11	7	9	13
Robb Nen	11.14	9	11	9	15	10	12	12
Matt Mantei	12.43	13	14	16	7	11	17	9
Trevor Hoffman	13.29	15	10	10	14	12	14	18
Francisco Cordero	13.29	11	16	19	13	13	11	10
Armando Benitez	13.57	17	27	11	17	9	7	7
Joe Borowski	13.57	16	13	13	9	14	16	14
Arthur Rhodes	16.29		12	14	10	16	15	11
Jorge Julio	17.14	18	15	25	12	15	18	17
Eddie Guardado	18.00	7	9	7	24		13	30
Danny Kolb	19.71	21	18	23	18	18	21	19
Ugueth Urbina	20.00	14		12	16		10	16
Braden Looper	22.29	23	19	24	19	24	25	22
Mike MacDougal	23.71	22	20	18	27	19	33	27
Rocky Biddle	25.86	29	17	31		20	28	20
Damaso Marte	26.14	12	33	20	20	35	32	31
Bob Wickman	26.71	31	22	30	23		22	23
Lance Carter	27.29	26	35			17	20	21
Joe Nathan	28.14	25	26	29	26	29		26
Danny Graves	28.29		24	27		25	26	24
Shawn Chacon	29.00	19		17			23
David Riske	29.71	20	31		22	28		35
LaTroy Hawkins	30.00	32		21	29	27		29
Billy Koch	30.14	27	21	33		34	24
Brad Lidge	30.57	35	29	28	28		30	28
Danys Baez	30.57	24	25		21
Ryan Wagner	32.14					21	27	33
Rafael Soriano	32.14			26		30		25
Francisco Rodriguez	32.57	33				22	29
Shigetoshi Hasegawa	33.29		30		25		34
Aquilino Lopez	33.29			22	33			34
Jose Valverde	33.57	30			30	32	35
Guillermo Mota	33.71			35	31	31	31
Justin Speier	33.86	34	23
Cory Lidle	34.57					26
Scott Williamson	34.86				32			32
Byung-Hyun Kim	34.86	28
Brendan Donnelly	35.00			32		33
Fernando Rodney	35.29		32		35
Rod Beck	35.71			34
Felix Rodriguez	35.71		34
Kazuhiro Sasaki*	36.00		28			23	19	15
*Will not play in majors this season