July 2024 Shortstop Rankings

Here are the July rest-of-season rankings. Players are listed based on how I perceive their 5×5 value going forward. In two weeks, I’ll present my way-too-early 2025 rankings in this same format.

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Top 300 | SP | RP | OF | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | C

Shortstop ROS Rankings

Dropping off: Orelvis Martinez (47th), Vidal Bruján (52nd), Ezequiel Duran (53rd), David Bote (54th), Colson Montgomery (55th)

• Remember how Anthony Volpe revamped his swing from all of the analytics-pulled flyballs-launch angle stuff and made all of the old school guys happy this spring and for two weeks in April? Well, it hasn’t really worked out that well since. I like to think he’ll find the proper middle ground at some point, but it should be noted that pulled flyballs are important and good. One need not aim for them every time, but they have a high success rate, particularly in Yankee Stadium.

• I’m not sure how the Twins are going to make room for Brooks Lee, but since he’s hit .333 with six homers in 19 games since joining Triple-A St. Paul’s lineup, I had to put him on here somewhere. Lee, the eighth overall pick in the 2022 draft, missed the first two months of the season due to a herniated disc in his back. Since returning, he’s played 20 games at shortstop, three at third and two at second. It seems likely that we’ll see him if either Carlos Correa or Royce Lewis gets hurt. A Jose Miranda slump might also open things up, though Miranda’s resurgence appears to be legit.