Preseason Ranks: Third Base

Rankings: Top 100 | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | C | OF | DH | SP | RP

The following list comprises the fantasy baseball top 30 third base rankings of each Yahoo! Sports fantasy expert for the 2012 season. The list is ordered by the overall top 30 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 Third Basemen Rankings
	Brandon Funston	Andy Behrens	Brad Evans	Scott Pianowski	Composite Ranking	FantasyPros Expert Consensus
Jose Bautista	1	1	1	1	1	compare
Evan Longoria	2	2	2	2	2	compare
Adrian Beltre	3	3	3	3	3	compare
Ryan Zimmerman	4	6	5	5	4	compare
David Wright	6	4	4	6	4	compare
Brett Lawrie	5	5	6	8	5	compare
Pablo Sandoval	7	8	8	4	6	compare
Alex Rodriguez	8	7	7	7	7	compare
Kevin Youkilis	11	9	9	9	8	compare
Aramis Ramirez	9	11	10	11	9	compare
Michael Young	10	10	11	10	9	compare
Mark Reynolds	12	12	13	13	10	compare
David Freese	14	13	14	14	11	compare
Emilio Bonifacio	17	17	12	12	12	compare
Martin Prado	13	14	16	15	12	compare
Mike Moustakas	18	15	15	17	13	compare
Edwin Encarnacion	15	20	17	16	14	compare
Ryan Roberts	16	16	19	22	15	compare
Chase Headley	19	18	18	19	16	compare
Chipper Jones	20	21	22	18	17	compare
Chris Davis	21	19	23	–	18	compare
Daniel Murphy	22	26	20	26	18	compare
Lonnie Chisenhall	23	22	24	25	18	compare
Danny Valencia	24	25	25	21	19	compare
Mike Aviles	26	27	26	20	20	compare
Brent Morel	25	–	27	23	21	compare
Ian Stewart	–	23	29	24	22	compare
Pedro Alvarez	29	–	21	–	23	compare
Placido Polanco	28	28	28	30	24	compare
Scott Rolen	27	29	30	29	25	compare
Ty Wigginton	30	24	–	–	26	compare
Jed Lowrie	–	30	–	27	27	compare
Chone Figgins	–	–	–	28	28	compare

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