Fantasy Baseball 2008: 2B Rankings

Here are the 2B rankings for mixed leagues using a ranking system that accounts for a player's previous three season's of work and relates those efforts to those of his peers across the five fantasy baseball categories - HR, RBI, SB, R, AVG. Because I did not want diminish the purity of the calcuations, I instead added a "+/-" column to make some commentary on select listed players. You may agree or disagree, and I hope you do.

There are a couple of 2B-eligible players who have a chance to be good 2008 sleepers - the Cleveland Indians' Asdrubal Cabrera and the Los Angeles Angels' Erick Aybar. Cabrera could be a poor man's Placido Polanco while Aybar need only discover the skills that allowed him to be a 40+ SB player in the minor leagues to be the equal of Felipe Lopez.

A player I'd like to highlight as being ranked much lower than I expected is Angels' 2B Howie Kendrick. Maybe I read too many of his press-clippings. Maybe I am too prone to believe prospect rankings. I don't know why, but I expected him to be much higher than 30th. A closer look at his efforts over the first two seasons reveals nothing to be excited about. A handful or HRs and SBs in each won't get you past the high single digit efforts of Freddy Sanchez and Placido Polanco, two players I doubt many fantasy players would select ahead of Kendrick.