Preseason Ranks: Designated Hitter
Rankings: Top 100 | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | C | OF | DH | SP | RP
The following list comprises the fantasy baseball top 5 designated hitter rankings of each Yahoo! Sports fantasy expert for the 2012 season. The list is ordered by the overall top 5 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 Designated Hitters Rankings | |||||||||
 Brandon Funston |  Andy Behrens |  Brad Evans |  Scott Pianowski |  Composite Ranking |
 FantasyPros Expert Consensus | ||||
| David Ortiz | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | compare | |||
| Jesus Montero | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | compare | |||
| Vladimir Guerrero | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | compare | |||
| Travis Hafner | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | compare | |||
| Jim Thome | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | compare | |||
Rankings based on a standard, 5x5 (BA, HR, RBI, R, SB) league format
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