Positional Rankings

By Arlo Vander, Fantasy Baseball Cafe

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.

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CATCHERS Avg Rank L
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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