Some of this is being repeated from the Primer piece that went up this morning.

We’re bringing them to you earlier this year, but that also means that they’re far from set in stone so take that into consideration as you peruse them. There are still strong arms on the free agent market, let alone all the moving and shaking that happens once players start reporting to camp.

Outfielder (Jan. 18)

Starting Pitcher (Jan. 20-today)

Shortstop (Jan. 22)

First Base (Jan. 25)

Catcher (Jan. 26)

Second Base (Jan. 27)

Third Base (Jan. 28)

DH (Jan. 29)

Reliever (Jan. 29 courtesy of the Bullpen Report crew)

We’re using Yahoo! eligibility requirements which is 5 starts or 10 appearances. These rankings assume the standard 5×5 categories and a re-draft league. If we forgot someone, please let us know in the comments and we’ll make sure he’s added for the updates. If you have questions for a specific ranker on something he did, let us know in the comments.

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There will be differences, sharp differences, within the rankings. The rankers have different philosophies when it comes to ranking, some of which you’re no doubt familiar with through previous iterations. Of course the idea that we’d all think the same would be silly because then what would be the point of including multiple rankers?!

Think someone should be higher or lower? Make a case. Let us know why you think that. Like I said, it’s early. Things are going to change.

The chart is sortable and by default it’s sorted by AVG. If a ranker didn’t rank someone that the others did, he was given that ranker’s last rank +1. That would be 266 for Jeff, 153 for Zach, 187 for Dan, 151 for Mike, 154 for Brad, 231 for myself, and 155 for Paul K.

Key:

AVG – just the average of the seven ranking sets

– just the average of the seven ranking sets Adj. AVG – the average minus the high and low rankings

– the average minus the high and low rankings SPLIT– the difference between the high and low rankings

Brad made this comment below and I don’t want to speak for anyone else but myself, but I wouldn’t be surprised if all of the rankers felt similarly. Maybe not with the exact range (5-18), but something very close.