Tuesday, January 23, 2007

2007 NL 3B Rankings

The 3B pool in the NL is a deep one. The top ones will not hurt in AVG and provide solid 20/80 power. I am very comfortable ignoring this position and gambling on any of Kevin Kouzmanoff, Wilson Betemit, Andy LaRoche (if he is draftable), Wes Helms and even Tony Graffanino.


































RankNL-onlyAVGHRRBISB
1ATKINS GARRETTCOL0.329291204
2CABRERA MIGUELFLA0.339261149
3WRIGHT DAVIDNYM0.3112611620
4RAMIREZ ARAMISCHC0.291381192
5JONES CHIPPERATL0.32426866
6ROLEN SCOTTSTL0.29622957
7ZIMMERMAN RYANWAS0.2872011011
8AURILIA RICHCIN0.30023703
9TRACY CHADARZ0.28120805
10SANCHEZ FREDDYPIT0.3446853
11DEROSA MARKCHC0.29613744
12FELIZ PEDROSF0.24422981
13ENCARNACION EDWINCIN0.27615726
14HELMS WESPHI0.32910470
15ENSBERG MORGANHOU0.23523581
16KOUZMANOFF KEVINSD0.2143110
17LAMB MIKEHOU0.30712452
18BETEMIT WILSONLA0.26318533
19BELL DAVIDMLW0.27010633
20SPIEZIO SCOTTSTL0.27213521
21WALKER TODDSD0.2789532
22GRAFFANINO TONYMLW0.2747595
23CIRILLO JEFFMLW0.3193231
24BAUTISTA JOSEPIT0.23516512
25BRANYAN RUSSELLSD0.22818362
26KOSKIE COREYMLW0.26112331
27AYBAR WILLYATL0.2804301
28BOONE AARONFLA0.2517465
29IZTURIS CESARCHC0.2451181
ANDY LAROCHE

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, I love your site and read it weekly, but those third base projections look like nothing but carbon copies of last years stats. No way do I see Garrett Atkins being more valuable than David Wright, and there is not a chance that Sanchez hits that high. He got unbelievably lucky with a .360 avg. on balls in play, I look for him to come back down to around .305

Anonymous said...

Very perceptive. Those stats are 2006 numbers.:)

If you assume players perform similarly, these ranks can be taken at face value. It is an assumption I am comfortable with for most of them. Atkins had an excellent year, and I think he will be slightly under-valued because he has done it once.

I expect Freddie Sanchez to produce a .300 AVG with 80 RBI because he will be hitting 3rd. With 2B and SS eligibility, he is more valuable than his stats indicate. How much? Not sure but it is greater than zero