2013 Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Shortstops

Davis Mattek — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:49:00 +0000

The fantasy baseball rankings community is hard at work; these 2013 fantasy baseball rankings for shortstops are just another brick in the wall. We’re getting pretty close to being done with the fantasy rankings and we aren’t even out of January! It is a deep, deep degeneracy that has led to the completion of these 2013 Fantasy Baseball Rankings for shortstops before February 1st. While rankings will change as spring training begins and positional battles heat up, getting a general consensus is very helpful. Shortstop is a position of the haves and have-nots, with the top players being very valuable, but after that, there is basically no useful production. My rankings are indicative of my general style; namely, go for broke. Many fantasy websites probably won’t have Troy Tulowitzki as their number 1 shortstop. That’s pure lunacy. When healthy, in that ballpark, you know that you have a truly elite fantasy player; worth the likely first or early second round choice you have to use on him. Additionally, despite his defensive miscues, Starlin Castro is an offensively elite player, one who I fully expect to have 20-20 season in combination with a decent batting average. Danny Espinosa is a personal favorite, as mentioned in my second base ranks, but his atrocious batting average keeps his ranking low. My low ranking of Derek Jeter will probably raise a few eyebrows from the casual fan, but last years .347 BABIP is enough to convince anyone that some serious regression to the mean is in line. Also, Jeter’s HR/FB ratio was up 9% from the year before and 4% higher than his career average. Those who overdraft Jeter will be sorry.

As always, please leave your comments or tweet me @davismattek to discuss ranks!

Troy Tulowitzki is at the top of these 2013 fantasy baseball rankings

Rank	Player	2012 Finish
1	Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado Rockies	38
2	Hanley Ramirez, Los Angeles Dodgers	6
3	Jose Reyes, Toronto Blue Jays	1
4	Starlin Castro, Chicago Cubs	5
5	Ben Zobrist, Tampa Bay Rays	10
6	Elvis Andrus, Texans Rangers	11
7	Ian Desmond, Washington Nationals	2
8	Asdrubal Cabrera, Cleveland Indians	15
9	Danny Espinosa, Washington Nationals	13
10	Jimmy Rollins, Philadelphia Phillies	4
11	Alcides Escobar, Kansas City Royals	7
12	Erick Aybar, Los Angeles Angels	12
13	J.J Hardy, Baltimore Orioles	18
14	Derek Jeter, New York Yankees	3
15	Alexi Ramierz, Chicago White Sox	14
16	Andrelton Simmons, Atlanta Braves	53
17	Jed Lowrie, Houston Astros	33
18	Everth Cabrera, San Diego Padres	16
19	Marco Scutaro, San Francisco Giants	9
20	Dee Gordon, Los Angeles Dodgers	25
21	Zack Cozart, Cincinnati Reds	22
22	Josh Rutledge, Colorado Rockies	28
23	Johnny Peralta, Detroit Tigers	27
24	Yunel Escobar, Tampa Bay Rays	24
25	Stephen Drew, Boston Red Sox	54
26	Jean Segura, Milwaukee Brewers	56
27	Eduardo Nunez, New York Yankees	46
28	Rafael Furcal, St. Louis Cardinals	19
29	Mike Aviles, Cleveland Indians	N/A
30	Hiroyuki Nakajimia, Oakland Athletics	N/A

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Despite being old and cantankerous, Jimmy Rollins still plays an important role in the 2013 fantasy baseball rankings for shortstops.

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2013 Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Shortstops