Positional Rankings

In fantasy baseball, you can never have too much information. That’s why, when compiling these rankings, we didn’t just ask one expert for his opinion – instead, we drew on the collective knowledge of twenty top-notch fantasy minds. To create these lists, each fantasy veteran created a full set of rankings for each position based on standard 5×5 roto scoring, and the results were then averaged to obtain a composite list. In doing so, a far more objective ranking can be compiled then by simply relying on one expert’s opinion.

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 twenty 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.

C 1B 2B 3B SS OF SP RP

CATCHERS	Avg Rank
Ivan Rodriguez	1.95
Javy Lopez	2.90
Victor Martinez	3.60
Jorge Posada	4.60
Jason Kendall	7.20
Jason Varitek	7.40
Mike Piazza	7.65
Paul LoDuca	9.55
Mike Lieberthal	10.50
Johnny Estrada	10.60
Ramon Hernandez	11.90
Michael Barrett	12.70
Joe Mauer	12.85
AJ Pierzynski	13.30
Brandon Inge	17.45
Miguel Olivo	19.00
Toby Hall	19.70
Jason LaRue	20.00
Bengie Molina	20.40
Rod Barajas	21.35
Matthew LeCroy	21.35
Charles Johnson	21.45
Damian Miller	21.60
Brian Schneider	21.75
John Buck	22.40

FIRST BASEMEN	Avg Rank
Albert Pujols	1.00
Todd Helton	2.20
Mark Teixeira	4.35
Jim Thome	4.70
David Ortiz	5.10
Carlos Delgado	6.30
Derrek Lee	7.50
Richie Sexson	10.35
Aubrey Huff	11.70
Jeff Bagwell	12.20
Paul Konerko	12.20
Justin Morneau	12.90
Shawn Green	13.05
Sean Casey	13.50
Phil Nevin	17.25
Brad Wilkerson	17.70
Mike Sweeney	18.55
Craig Wilson	19.35
Lyle Overbay	21.00
Jason Giambi	21.30
Rafael Palmeiro	21.55
Carlos Pena	21.80
Kevin Millar	21.80
Dmitri Young	22.50
Darin Erstad	23.05

SECOND BASEMEN	Avg Rank
Alfonso Soriano	1.00
Marcus Giles	3.30
Jeff Kent	3.95
Bret Boone	6.40
Mark Loretta	7.55
Jose Vidro	8.35
Ray Durham	11.10
Brian Roberts	11.70
Jose Reyes	11.75
Chone Figgins	12.20
Luis Castillo	12.65
Juan Uribe	13.30
Chase Utley	14.40
Mark Bellhorn	16.05
D’Angelo Jimenez	17.30
Todd Walker	17.95
Tony Womack	18.20
Kazuo Matsui	18.80
Placido Polanco	19.35
Orlando Hudson	19.50
Ty Wigginton	19.65
Ryan Freel	21.30
Omar Infante	21.75
Aaron Miles	22.00
Junior Spivey	22.90

THIRD BASEMEN	Avg Rank
Alex Rodriguez	1.00
Scott Rolen	3.05
Adrian Beltre	3.25
Eric Chavez	4.20
Hank Blalock	5.80
Aubrey Huff	6.45
Aramis Ramirez	7.20
Melvin Mora	7.90
Chipper Jones	9.20
David Wright	9.60
Troy Glaus	10.75
Mike Lowell	10.75
Aaron Boone	14.00
Chone Figgins	14.25
Corey Koskie	15.75
Ryan Freel	17.00
Casey Blake	17.05
Shea Hillenbrand	17.20
Mark Bellhorn	18.15
Eric Hinske	18.25
Vinny Castilla	18.45
David Newham	18.50
Pedro Feliz	18.90
Juan Uribe	19.00
Dallas McPherson	19.25

SHORTSTOPS	Avg Rank
Miguel Tejada	1.00
Derek Jeter	3.30
Michael Young	3.50
Nomar Garciaparra	3.60
Jimmy Rollins	6.20
Edgar Renteria	6.80
Rafael Furcal	7.60
Carlos Guillen	9.90
Orlando Cabrera	10.20
Bobby Crosby	13.10
Kaz Matsui	14.10
Julio Lugo	14.10
Cesar Izturis	15.90
Jose Reyes	16.20
Angel Berroa	16.20
Juan Uribe	16.40
Khalil Greene	18.10
Jack Wilson	18.20
Pedro Feliz	19.90
Omar Vizquel	20.20
BJ Upton	20.30
David Eckstein	20.80
Cristian Guzman	21.30
Jose Valentin	22.50
Alex Gonzalez (TB)	23.10

OUTFIELDERS	Avg Rank
Vladimir Guerrero	1.45
Carlos Beltran	2.00
Manny Ramirez	4.00
Bobby Abreu	4.30
Barry Bonds	5.60
Ichiro Suzuki	8.10
Carl Crawford	8.20
Gary Sheffield	8.75
Miguel Cabrera	9.05
Hideki Matsui	13.25
Jim Edmonds	13.55
Adam Dunn	14.05
Carlos Lee	14.65
Vernon Wells	16.95
Magglio Ordonez	17.60
Juan Pierre	17.70
Johnny Damon	19.15
Lance Berkman	20.60
Brian Giles	20.75
J.D. Drew	21.15
Corey Patterson	23.40
Chipper Jones	23.40
Andruw Jones	23.80
Shawn Green	24.45
Garret Anderson	25.70
Scott Podsednik	27.60
Sammy Sosa	28.00
Preston Wilson	28.30
Aaron Rowand	28.70
Torii Hunter	30.35
Larry Walker	30.60
Jason Bay	30.60
Steve Finley	31.90
Richard Hidalgo	33.10
Moises Alou	33.30
Brad Wilkerson	33.95
Wily Mo Pena	34.00
Randy Winn	34.75
Craig Wilson	34.75
Geoff Jenkins	35.00
Ryan Freel	35.00
Jose Guillen	35.85
Lew Ford	36.10
Pat Burrell	36.35
Ken Griffey, Jr.	37.30
Matt Lawton	37.35
Rocco Baldelli	37.50
Kevin Mench	37.65
Mark Kotsay	37.65
Coco Crisp	38.00

STARTING PITCHERS	Avg Rank
Randy Johnson	1.75
Johan Santana	2.00
Mark Prior	4.75
Jason Schmidt	4.90
Pedro Martinez	5.30
Curt Schilling	6.50
Roy Oswalt	7.20
Tim Hudson	10.20
Ben Sheets	10.50
Kerry Wood	12.15
Oliver Perez	15.00
Mark Mulder	16.15
Jake Peavy	16.65
Roy Halladay	16.85
Mike Mussina	16.95
Carlos Zambrano	17.00
Roger Clemens	21.45
Josh Beckett	23.60
Rich Harden	25.00
Javier Vazquez	25.10
Barry Zito	26.60
Odalis Perez	27.05
Mark Buehrle	27.10
AJ Burnett	27.20
Matt Clement	28.10
Greg Maddux	28.45
Livan Hernadez	29.55
Freddy Garcia	30.05
Carl Pavano	30.65
Bartolo Colon	31.40
John Smoltz	32.30
CC Sabathia	33.30
Kelvim Escobar	34.70
Brad Radke	38.30
Brad Penny	39.10
Kevin Brown	41.75
Matt Morris	42.00
Chris Carpenter	42.65
Dontrelle Willis	44.60
Andy Pettitte	45.20
Kevin Millwood	45.65
Joel Pineiro	46.85
Zach Greinke	47.40
Randy Wolf	47.60
Jeff Weaver	47.75
Brian Lawrence	48.30
Brandon Webb	48.60
Jaret Wright	49.50
Ted Lilly	49.80
Al Leiter	50.70
Jake Westbrook	51.00
Jeremy Bonderman	51.05
Bronson Arroyo	51.20
Tom Glavine	51.65
Wade Miller	51.95
David Wells	52.35
Scott Kazmir	52.75
Doug Davis	52.80
Adam Eaton	53.20
Jamie Moyer	54.10

RELIEF PITCHERS	Avg Rank
Eric Gagne	1.05
Mariano Rivera	3.55
Brad Lidge	4.65
Keith Foulke	5.85
Billy Wagner	6.80
Francisco Rodriguez	6.90
Joe Nathan	9.15
Jason Isringhausen	9.45
Armando Benitez	11.45
Octavio Dotel	11.60
Francisco Cordero	11.85
Trevor Hoffman	12.40
Guillermo Mota	14.00
Troy Percival	16.00
Braden Looper	16.45
Danny Kolb	16.85
Eddie Guardado	18.35
Shingo Takatsu	19.80
Danys Baez	20.70
BJ Ryan	20.95
Danny Graves	21.55
Jose Mesa	22.20
Chad Cordero	23.45
LaTroy Hawkins	24.20
Jeremy Affeldt	27.35
Bob Wickman	29.05
Ugueth Urbina	30.35
Akinori Otsuka	30.60
Tom Gordon	30.65
Mike Gonzalez	31.80
Greg Aquino	31.95
Jorge Julio	32.10
Damaso Marte	33.25
Juan Rincon	33.40
Jason Frasor	33.65

Acknowledgments
Many thanks to to the following fantasy veterans for sharing their rankings:

Absolutely Adequate, Amazinz, Dannahann, Dleoboyd, Eftda, Grammysboy, HBJ79, Irishdude103, J35J, Kimchi_chigae, Rico The Retard, Rlee, RugbyD, SaintsOfTheDiamond, Shockandawe, Silentreader, Tavish, Transmogrifier, Trevisc, Warrick95.

You can catch up with these guys and many other true fantasy experts in the Cafe’s forums.

And extra special thanks to Lofunzo, without whose initiative, organizational skills and computations these rankings would never have seen the light of day!

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