Cafe Positional Rankings: Week 9

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Note: Our rankings do not include any player that was on the DL or in the minors at the time the rankings were submitted.

Catchers

Rank	Player	Prev.	Comments
1	Joe Mauer	1	Simply ridiculous right now
2	Victor Martinez	2
3	Brian McCann	3
4	Bengie Molina	4
5	Russell Martin	5
6	Jorge Posada	NR	Looking good off the DL
7	Brandon Inge	6
8	Matt Wieters	NR	Patience here will pay off
9	Pablo Sandoval	9
10	Geovany Soto	8
11	Jarrod Saltalamacchia	10
12	John Baker	11
13	Mike Napoli	7	Napoli is officially freezing cold
14	Yadier Molina	12
15	Jason Varitek	15

First Basemen

Rank	Player	Prev.	Comments
1	Albert Pujols	1
2	Miguel Cabrera	2
3	Mark Teixeira	3
4	Ryan Howard	4
5	Justin Morneau	5
6	Adrian Gonzalez	6	On pace for 65 HRs playing in Petco; amazing
7	Prince Fielder	7
8	Kevin Youkilis	10
9	Lance Berkman	9
10	Adam Dunn	11	Have to believe he won’t keep this average up
11	Carlos Pena	8	Average is falling very fast
12	Aubrey Huff	14
13	Jorge Cantu	13
14	Mark Reynolds	NR	Dual eligibility!
15	Paul Konerko	15

Second Basemen

Rank	Player	Prev.	Comments
1	Chase Utley	1
2	Ian Kinsler	2
3	Dustin Pedroia	3	Counting stats leave room to be desired
4	Brian Roberts	4
5	Brandon Phillips	5
6	Robinson Cano	7	Continues to rake
7	Aaron Hill	6
8	Chone Figgins	8
9	Orlando Hudson	9
10	Dan Uggla	10
11	Alexei Ramirez	11
12	Kelly Johnson	14
13	Asdrubal Cabrera	13
14	Marco Scutaro	12	Slowing down along with his team
15	Jose Lopez	15	Starting to warm up; time to buy in

Third Basemen

Rank	Player	Prev.	Comments
1	Alex Rodriguez	1	Kudos to those that bought or held
2	Miguel Cabrera	2
3	Evan Longoria	3
4	David Wright	4
5	Kevin Youkilis	5
6	Ryan Zimmerman	6	Hit a rough patch but should be fine
7	Michael Young	7
8	Mark Reynolds	10	Still K’ing too much for our liking, but we’ll take the production
9	Chipper Jones	8	Heating up with the weather
10	Jorge Cantu	9
11	Chone Figgins	11
12	Aubrey Huff	12	Not producing in the middle of a dangerous lineup
13	Mike Lowell	13
14	Hank Blalock	15
15	Russell Branyan	NR

Shortstops

Rank	Player	Prev.	Comments
1	Hanley Ramirez	1
2	Jimmy Rollins	3
3	Michael Young	4
4	Derek Jeter	6
5	Miguel Tejada	7	Staking his claim to be the mythical #4 SS
6	Alexei Ramirez	13
7	Stephen Drew	10
8	J.J. Hardy	8
9	Troy Tulowitzki	9
10	Asdrubal Cabrera	14
11	Jhonny Peralta	11
12	Rafael Furcal	12	Disappointing season considering LAD’s team success
13	Marco Scutaro	15
14	Ryan Theriot	NR
15	Ben Zobrist	NR	Should see full time ABs with Iwamura out

Outfielders

Rank	Player	Prev.	Comments
1	Ryan Braun	1
2	Carlos Beltran	2	Here’s to hoping he’s swine flu free
3	Alfonso Soriano	4
4	Carlos Lee	5
5	Jason Bay	7	Appearance on Rome show yesterday is ultimate karma (1st inning HR)
6	Carl Crawford	8
7	Nick Markakis	6
8	Josh Hamilton	9
9	Matt Kemp	10
10	Curtis Granderson	11
11	Raul Ibanez	12
12	Ichiro Suzuki	13	26 game hitting streak; hopefully the steals will follow
13	Jacoby Ellsbury	15
14	Adam Dunn	18
15	Torii Hunter	19
16	Adam Jones	20	Probably baseball’s biggest surprise
17	Nelson Cruz	23
18	Matt Holliday	17
19	Nate McLouth	21
20	B.J. Upton	13
21	Jay Bruce	26
22	Johnny Damon	24
23	Justin Upton	31
24	Shane Victorino	25
25	Alex Rios	22
26	Vladimir Guerrero	27
27	Hunter Pence	29	Huge spike in BBs has increased his BA; waiting on power
28	Ryan Ludwick	NR
29	Jayson Werth	30
30	Jermaine Dye	34
31	Bobby Abreu	32
32	Brad Hawpe	35
33	Corey Hart	28	Usually heats up come July or so; might be a good time to get him
34	Andre Ethier	33
35	Vernon Wells	37
36	Juan Pierre	38	Dodgers’ MVP?
37	Magglio Ordonez	36
38	Luke Scott	NR	Tiger killer: 10 HRs in 10 career games against DET
39	Adam Lind	39
40	Shin-Soo Choo	40

Starting Pitchers

Rank	Player	Prev.	Comments
1	Johan Santana	1
2	Tim Lincecum	2
3	Zack Greinke	4
4	Roy Halladay	3
5	C.C. Sabathia	5
6	Dan Haren	7
7	Jake Peavy	6
8	Chad Billingsley	8
9	Cole Hamels	9	Great buy-low right now
10	Justin Verlander	13
11	Felix Hernandez	11
12	Yovani Gallardo	12
13	Javier Vazquez	14	Quietly putting together a great season
14	Josh Beckett	10
15	Matt Cain	19
16	James Shields	15
17	Josh Johnson	18	Owns the Mets (and almost everyone else)
18	Cliff Lee	16
19	Roy Oswalt	17
20	Jered Weaver	22
21	Johnny Cueto	21
22	Erik Bedard	20
23	Ted Lilly	25
24	Derek Lowe	24
25	Adam Wainwright	29
26	Kevin Slowey	33	Starting to look like Minny’s ace
27	Matt Garza	31
28	John Lackey	27
29	Wandy Rodriguez	26
30	Edwin Jackson	35	Only Grienke has a better ERA in the AL
31	Chris Carpenter	NR
32	Clayton Kershaw	37
33	Jon Lester	23
34	A.J. Burnett	36
35	Jair Jurrjens	38
36	John Danks	34
37	Ervin Santana	30	Owners are worried he still might be hurt
38	Aaron Harang	32
39	Joba Chamberlain	30
40	David Price	NR	40 might be conservative given his potential
41	Chris Young	39
42	Joe Saunders	43
43	Ryan Dempster	46
44	Francisco Liriano	40
45	Chris Volstad	45
46	Paul Maholm	41
47	Randy Wolf	48
48	Rick Porcello	NR	Can he continue his May hot streak?
49	Carlos Zambrano	NR
50	Zack Duke	47

Relievers

Rank	Player	Prev.	Comments
1	Jonathan Papelbon	1
2	Joe Nathan	3
3	Jonathan Broxton	2
4	Francisco Rodriguez	4
5	Heath Bell	5
6	Mariano Rivera	6
7	Trevor Hoffman	7	Best signing of the off-season?
8	Frank Francisco	9
9	Francisco Cordero	8
10	Brian Fuentes	10
11	Chad Qualls	11
12	Bobby Jenks	13
13	Brad Lidge	12	Not the same Lidge as last year
14	Huston Street	14
15	Scott Downs	15
16	Matt Capps	19	Returned quicker than expected and looks fine
17	Mike Gonzalez	16
18	Ryan Franklin	17
19	Brian Wilson	18
20	Kerry Wood	22
21	Fernando Rodney	20	Still looking good
23	Matt Lindstrom	21
24	Kevin Gregg	25
25	George Sherrill	26
26	David Aardsma	23
27	Andrew Bailey	29
28	Carlos Marmol	27
29	Joel Hanrahan	NR
30	Juan Cruz	24	Will quickly disappear from these rankings next week

 

 
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