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BlownRanger

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Astros Trounce Competition in Positional Rankings
« on: February 21, 2019, 11:00:12 am »
I don't have a link.  This is all based on what I heard this morning.

The MLB Channel on Sirius/XM has spent the last week ranking the top-10 players at each position (LF/RF combined to Corner OF) based on the votes of their hosts/analysts.  They finished with CF today.  Steve Phillips then revealed that he spent last night compiling team rankings based on the results.  If your team had the top player at a position it got 10 points, second best player got 9 points, etc.  There were seven Astros ranked:

Altuve          No. 1 2B     10 points
Springer      No. 2 CF       9 points
Bregman     No. 3 3B      8 points
Correa         No. 4 SS      7 points
Osuna         No. 9 Clos    2 points
Verlander/Cole combined in SP for 9 points (not sure where they each ranked).

The Astros total of 45 points was nine points higher than the Yankees' 36 points.  The Brewers, Cubs, and Nats were next in line.

Harper was the No 5 Corner and Kimbrel was the No 2 closer.  Signing both would only move the Nats into third place ahead of the Brewers.
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Re: Astros Trounce Competition in Positional Rankings
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2019, 11:35:56 am »
I don't have a link.  This is all based on what I heard this morning.

The MLB Channel on Sirius/XM has spent the last week ranking the top-10 players at each position (LF/RF combined to Corner OF) based on the votes of their hosts/analysts.  They finished with CF today.  Steve Phillips then revealed that he spent last night compiling team rankings based on the results.  If your team had the top player at a position it got 10 points, second best player got 9 points, etc.  There were seven Astros ranked:

Altuve          No. 1 2B     10 points
Springer      No. 2 CF       9 points
Bregman     No. 3 3B      8 points
Correa         No. 4 SS      7 points
Osuna         No. 9 Clos    2 points
Verlander/Cole combined in SP for 9 points (not sure where they each ranked).

The Astros total of 45 points was nine points higher than the Yankees' 36 points.  The Brewers, Cubs, and Nats were next in line.

Harper was the No 5 Corner and Kimbrel was the No 2 closer.  Signing both would only move the Nats into third place ahead of the Brewers.

Good stuff.