Staff rankings: Third base
by Nick FlederFebruary 17, 2012
We finish up the infield with the top 25 men at the hot corner. The staffers who ranked are Josh Shepardson, Ben Pritchett, Brad Johnson and yours truly. We used FantasyPros.com to create our composite rankings, and if you follow the link provided in our rankings, you can see how ours compared with a slew of other experts'.
Assume a 12-team, mixed league with standard 5x5 settings. Click on the links with our names to get to our Twitter accounts, where we'll happily answer your baseball and fantasy questions year-round.
| 2012 Third basemen rankings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player name | Nick Fleder | Ben Prichett | Josh Shepardson | Brad Johnson | THT Composite | FantasyPros Expert Consensus |
| Jose Bautista | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | compare |
| Evan Longoria | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | compare |
| Adrian Beltre | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | compare |
| Ryan Zimmerman | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | compare |
| David Wright | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | compare |
| Brett Lawrie | 5 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 6 | compare |
| Pablo Sandoval | 7 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 7 | compare |
| Alex Rodriguez | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 8 | compare |
| Michael Young | 9 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 9 | compare |
| Kevin Youkilis | 11 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 10 | compare |
| Aramis Ramirez | 10 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 11 | compare |
| Mark Reynolds | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 12 | compare |
| Mike Moustakas | 13 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 13 | compare |
| David Freese | 14 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 14 | compare |
| Edwin Encarnacion | 16 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 15 | compare |
| Emilio Bonifacio | 15 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 16 | compare |
| Chase Headley | 19 | 20 | 16 | 16 | 17 | compare |
| Martin Prado | 17 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 18 | compare |
| Ryan Roberts | 18 | 18 | 20 | 17 | 19 | compare |
| Chipper Jones | 20 | 21 | 19 | 21 | 20 | compare |
| Lonnie Chisenhall | 21 | 19 | 21 | – | 21 | compare |
| Daniel Murphy | – | 22 | 25 | 22 | 22 | compare |
| Casey McGehee | – | 33 | – | 18 | 23 | compare |
| Pedro Alvarez | 24 | – | 22 | – | 24 | compare |
| Danny Valencia | 25 | 32 | 23 | 24 | 25 | compare |
Fantasy Baseball Rankings powered by FantasyPros, the leading aggregator of expert fantasy advice.
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