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There’s a decent chance that Shortstop Week is more exciting than that Super Bowl, honestly. Not an exciting game, but a tense one and definitely amazing to see what Brady and Belichick have accomplished.
But that’s all over now, which means that the masses are hopefully beginning to gravitate over to a sport with a little more parity. So welcome to the MLB, folks. Here is what we have already covered in the past three weeks:
Now that you’re all caught up, let’s enjoy some consensus rankings from the Fake Teams crew. I won’t dig in with analysis just yet, but it seems like we’ll have some strong thoughts on Javier Baez and Adalberto Mondesi throughout the week.
Let us know who you think is too high or too low, and anything you’d like to hear about this week as we discuss shortstops! And for my sake, scope out the poll below that is between a pair of elite shortstops.
Top 15 Shortstop Rankings
| Name | Team | Rank | Avg Rank | Heath | Punk | Joe | Zack | Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Rank | Avg Rank | Heath | Punk | Joe | Zack | Mark |
| Francisco Lindor | CLE | 1 | 1.40 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Alex Bregman | HOU | 2 | 2.40 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Trea Turner | WAS | 3 | 2.80 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Manny Machado | FA | 4 | 3.40 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Trevor Story | COL | 5 | 5.80 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 |
| Carlos Correa | HOU | 6 | 6.60 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| Xander Bogaerts | BOS | 7 | 7.40 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 |
| Javier Baez | CHC | 8 | 7.60 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 10 |
| Corey Seager | LOS | 9 | 8.80 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 5 |
| Gleyber Torres | NYY | 10 | 10.40 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 11 |
| Jean Segura | PHI | 11 | 11.00 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 13 |
| Adalberto Mondesi | KC | 12 | 12.00 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 14 |
| Jose Peraza | CIN | 13 | 14.20 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 12 |
| Amed Rosario | NYM | 14 | 14.60 | 16 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 9 |
| Elvis Andrus | TEX | 15 | 16.60 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 28 | 16 |
Poll
Which shortstop would you rather have?
This poll is closed
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39%
Trea Turner, WAS (9.12 NFBC ADP)
(110 votes) -
60%
Alex Bregman, HOU (11.59 NFBC ADP)
(171 votes)