2012 Fantasy Baseball: Second Base Rankings

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Opening Day is just a few weeks away and Athlon Sports has all the fantasy baseball rankings you need to get ready for the upcoming season.

Athlon Sports has combined nine fantasy baseball big boards from around the web to compile an updated consensus Top 200 as well as positional breakdowns.

The top four at second base stay the same as Robinson Cano leads the way followed by Dustin Pedroia, Ian Kinsler and Ben Zobrist.

Brandon Phillips and Michael Young have swapped places at fifth and seventh, respectively, with Dan Uggla falling in between them. Phillips slight move up the Top 200 could be attributed to Reds manager Dusty Baker's assertion that Phillips will star the season as his leadoff hitter. Phillips was moved to the leadoff spot last August and thrived there, hitting .350 with seven home runs, seven stole bases and a .417 on-base percentage.

Chase Utley dropped just a few spots in the Top 200, but that's subject to change as the Phillies' second basemen is dealing with issues with both knees. He left the Phillies' camp earlier this week to see a knee specialist and the team has already said his availability to be ready by Opening Day is in doubt.

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Rank – Position ranking
OVR – Overall ranking on The Big Board
LR — Last Ranked, where player was ranked on The Big Board that was published on Feb. 20, 2012
NR — Not Ranked, means player did not appear on The Big Board that was published on Feb. 20, 2012

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AS – Athlon Sports (updated 3/19/12)
CBS – CBSSportsline.com (as of 3/16/12)
ESPN – (updated 3/13/12)
FOX – FOXSports.com (updated 3/7/12)
MLB – MLB.com (as of 3/15/12)
RC – RotoChamp.com (updated 3/18/12)
RS – RotoSummit.com (updated 2/27/12)
USA — USAToday.com (updated 2/13/12)
Y! – Yahoo! Sports (updated 2/24/12)*

*Yahoo! ranked only 120 players on their list, while Athlon's Big Board contains 200. The aggregated scores of the other eight big boards were used to extrapolate Yahoo!’s rankings to 200 players.

Athlon Sports Fantasy Rankings**: Big Board | C | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | OF | SP | RP

**Positional rankings will be updated throughout the week


Rank	OVR	LR	Player:	Team	Pos	AS	CBS	ESPN	FOX	MLB	RC	RS	USA	Y!
1	7	8	Robinson Cano	NYY	2B	3	16	7	10	10	13	7	8	8
2	15	15	Dustin Pedroia	BOS	2B	13	14	15	11	21	16	14	19	17
3	22	22	Ian Kinsler	TEX	2B	28	30	19	26	14	35	20	15	20
4	50	52	Ben Zobrist	TB	2B/OF	93	72	51	41	45	64	43	51	52
5	53	59	Brandon Phillips	CIN	2B	39	101	54	49	49	71	52	47	55
6	55	57	Dan Uggla	ATL	2B	100	103	42	52	64	50	45	55	48
7	59	53	Michael Young	TEX	1B/2B/3B	74	56	95	43	101	26	57	75	61
8	75	64	Rickie Weeks	MIL	2B	95	95	83	45	55	96	67	54	84
9	89	83	Chase Utley	PHI	2B	68	100	76	71	98	-	74	67	71
10	90	90	Howard Kendrick	LAA	1B/2B/OF	85	119	118	79	84	88	91	101	72
11	112	120	Michael Cuddyer	COL	1B/2B/OF	96	152	92	123	156	139	98	121	70
12	123	129	Dustin Ackley	SEA	2B	112	144	171	93	135	152	132	103	117
13	146	148	Neil Walker	PIT	2B	141	157	167	104	-	117	154	144	147
14	152	146	Jason Kipnis	CLE	2B	139	-	174	148	167	135	134	141	156
15	159	164	Ryan Roberts	ARI	2B/3B	162	123	165	112	192	162	189	180	155
16	162	168	Danny Espinosa	WAS	2B	182	185	189	113	166	140	165	155	160
17	167	186	Jemile Weeks	OAK	2B	165	131	-	180	-	156	145	147	177
18	178	193	Kelly Johnson	TOR	2B	-	161	175	164	141	199	157	-	188
19	229	NR	Aaron Hill	ARI	2B	-	198	-	168	-	-	-	-	-
20	256	NR	Mike Aviles	BOS	2B/SS/3B	-	-	-	-	191	-	-	-	-
21	259	NR	Darwin Barney	CHC	2B	-	-	-	194	-	-	-	-	-

Other names to consider (in alphabetical order): Jose Altuve (HOU, 2B), Gordon Beckham (CHW, 2B), Jamey Carroll (MIN, 2B/SS), Allen Craig (STL, 2B/OF), Mark Ellis (LAD, 2B), Orlando Hudson (SD, 2B), Macier Izturis (LAA, 2B/SS/3B), Daniel Murphy (NYM, 1B/2B/3B), Ryan Raburn (DET, 2B/OF), Brian Roberts (BAL, 2B), Sean Rodriguez (TB, 2B/SS/3B), Scott Sizemore (OAK, 2B/3B), Ruben Tejada (NYM, 2B/SS)

— By Mark Ross, updated on March 23, 2012

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