Preseason Ranks: First Base

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The following list comprises the fantasy baseball top 40 first base rankings of each Yahoo! Sports fantasy expert for the 2012 season. The list is ordered by the overall top 40 composite ranking of the four experts, with the remaining players that received votes rounding out the bottom of the list. For comparison’s sake, the last column links to player pages that compare the rankings from many of the industry’s top fantasy baseball analysts, compiled by our friends at FantasyPros.

2012 First Basemen Rankings
	Brandon Funston	Andy Behrens	Brad Evans	Scott Pianowski	Composite Ranking	FantasyPros Expert Consensus
Miguel Cabrera	1	1	1	1	1	compare
Albert Pujols	2	2	2	2	2	compare
Joey Votto	4	4	3	3	3	compare
Adrian Gonzalez	3	3	5	4	4	compare
Prince Fielder	5	5	4	5	5	compare
Mark Teixeira	6	6	6	6	6	compare
Pablo Sandoval	8	7	13	7	7	compare
Paul Konerko	13	9	7	8	8	compare
Carlos Santana	7	8	15	10	9	compare
Eric Hosmer	11	13	12	13	10	compare
Michael Cuddyer	10	16	16	9	11	compare
Michael Morse	17	14	8	16	12	compare
Mike Napoli	9	17	14	15	12	compare
Michael Young	14	11	18	12	12	compare
Kevin Youkilis	18	10	17	11	13	compare
Lance Berkman	16	18	10	17	14	compare
Paul Goldschmidt	15	20	11	21	15	compare
Howard Kendrick	12	15	27	14	16	compare
Joe Mauer	22	12	26	19	17	compare
Freddie Freeman	21	21	19	18	17	compare
Ike Davis	20	25	9	26	18	compare
Billy Butler	19	22	21	20	19	compare
Ryan Howard	25	26	25	22	20	compare
Adam Lind	26	24	20	31	21	compare
Nick Swisher	31	19	32	23	22	compare
Mark Reynolds	24	28	28	24	22	compare
Lucas Duda	35	33	22	25	23	compare
Kendrys Morales	30	27	23	29	23	compare
Adam Dunn	27	23	30	30	24	compare
Mark Trumbo	29	36	24	33	25	compare
Gaby Sanchez	28	32	29	27	25	compare
Brandon Belt	23	37	31	–	26	compare
Edwin Encarnacion	32	34	39	28	27	compare
Mitch Moreland	40	29	40	37	28	compare
Carlos Pena	33	30	33	34	29	compare
Carlos Lee	34	31	34	32	30	compare
Justin Morneau	39	39	35	40	30	compare
Chris Davis	–	35	38	–	30	compare
James Loney	36	–	–	35	30	compare
Mike Carp	37	–	36	36	30	compare
Justin Smoak	38	38	37	39	30	compare
Daniel Murphy	–	–	–	38	30	compare
Ty Wigginton	–	40	–	–	30	compare

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