2009 Preseason Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Infield
The last couple weeks, we’ve been combing through some in-depth analysis of 2008 season statistics and year end stock market values from our buddies at RotoHog. What have we assembled after all that analysis?
The most in-depth preseason cheat sheets for the 2009 fantasy baseball season.
After we honored him with our 2008 Fantasy Baseball MVP Award, Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals is our no. 1 ranked first baseman heading into next year. His successful surgery this past week gives us even more confidence than we had in him last preseason, when we also had him ranked as the top first baseman.
To get an idea of who we think will be the fantasy baseball superstars of next season, check out our first five, top 25 preseason rankings of players at each infield position:
- 2009 Fantasy Baseball Catcher Rankings
- 2009 Fantasy Baseball First Base Rankings
- 2009 Fantasy Baseball Second Base Rankings
- 2009 Fantasy Baseball Third Base Rankings
- 2009 Fantasy Baseball Shortstop Rankings
Next week, we will be releasing outfielder rankings, pitcher rankings, and our first draft of the top 250 players in fantasy baseball for 2009.
If you check out our fantasy baseball preseason rankings and have an opinion one way or the other with our rankings, give us a shout. Drop some comments below or e-mail webmaster [at] fantasybaseballdugout [dot] com.
October 17th, 2008 at 8:02 am
You clearly are biased against the Pirates. When are you coming out with your “would be an okay 4th outfielder on a good team” rankings?
October 17th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Seibert:
We don’t have a total Pirate bias. Ryan Doumit gets a little love in our catcher rankings… and Nate McLouth is somewhere in the top 25 outfielders. Guess you’ll have to check back and see where.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:14 am
So I was referred from another blog ,,yours is so much to read Thanks!
January 5th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
You may need to do a little more homework on those rankings. Where’s the biggest sleeper in the 09 draft in these rankings?? (Chris Davis) Especially…
If he has numbers such as .280-100-37-110.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Chris Davis isn’t a sleeper when everyone and their uncle know about him and he’s gonna go before the 9th round…. He is but he isn’t, you can’t hardly call anyone a sleeper anymore. I’ve heard him called the “white ryan howard”
We’ll see….
January 6th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
@DanL – I agree that Chris Davis definitely needs some more consideration on our list, and we have done some re-evaluations of our rankings (updates on the way).
That said, I have to agree with Tony… Chris Davis isn’t really a “sleeper.” In fact, I think everyone talks about him a little TOO much.
I still believe that sleepers exist, especially to people that don’t follow fantasy baseball as closely as we do, but you can’t just call anyone a sleeper. Even our no. 1 sleeper from last year – Joba Chamberlain – wasn’t really a sleeper.
January 13th, 2009 at 10:00 am
You guys also have BJ Upton waaaay underrated.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I think Alexei Ramirez is WAAAAAAY underrated! He had a .290 avg. 21 HR, 13 SB, and 77 rbi’s to go along with it!! He should at least be in the top 10 but at # 10 you have Jose Lopez who first of all is a first baseman not a second baseman. Ramirez beat him in SB, and HR. Also, Lopez is on a pitiful Mariners while Ramirez is on a cotender in the White Sox.
February 27th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Compare Longorias’ #’s to Ramirez…