Pomp Culture Fantasy Baseball Preview 2009: First Base Rankings

February 06, 2009 | Comments (0) | by Jake the Terrible Cubs Fan

It's that time of year again. We're about a week away from pitchers and catchers reporting, so it's time to start putting together your cheat sheets for a new season of fantasy baseball. Over the next couple weeks I will be giving you my top players at each position. Position eligibility is determined by the guidelines set by Yahoo Fantasy Baseball (5 games started or 10 games played for hitters, 3 starts for starting pitchers and 5 relief appearances for relief pitchers) unless otherwise stated. Please feel free to discuss in the comments.


* denotes player technically only qualifies as a DH, but having a separate DH ranking is worthless so I include them in the first base rankings since that is what they typically played in the field.

1. Albert Pujols, STL
2. Miguel Cabrera, DET
3. Mark Teixeira, NYY
4. Ryan Howard, PHI
5. Lance Berkman, HOU
6. Prince Fielder, MIL
7. Justin Morneau, MIN
8. David Ortiz, BOS*
9. Kevin Youkilis, BOS
10. Adrian Gonzalez, SD
11. Derrek Lee, CHC
12. Adam Dunn, FA
13. Garrett Atkins, COL
14. Chris Davis, TEX
15. Joey Votto, CIN
16. Carlos Pena, TB
17. Aubrey Huff, BAL
18. Carlos Delgado, NYM
19. Conor Jackson, ARI
20. James Loney, LAD
21. Victor Martinez, CLE
22. Jim Thome, CHW*
23. Carlos Guillen, DET
24. Adam LaRoche, PIT
25. Paul Konerko, CHW
26. Jorge Cantu, FLA
27. Mike Jacobs, KC
28. Hank Blalock, TEX
29. Nick Swisher, NYY
30. Travis Hafner, CLE*

Just missed the list: Jason Giambi OAK, Billy Butler KC, Pablo Sandoval SF, Casey Blake LAD, Todd Helton COL, Casey Kotchman ATL