We have outlined preliminary position-by-position rankings for next season. Feel free to argue, discuss and generally rip our opinions -- and absolutely grill us if we left someone out or overlooked some intriguing sleepers.
| Top 40 catchers | |||||
| RK | Player | TM | RK | Player | TM |
| 1 | Victor Martinez | CLE | 21 | Miguel Olivo | FLA |
| 2 | Russell Martin | LAD | 22 | Kurt Suzuki | OAK |
| 3 | Joe Mauer | MIN | 23 | David Ross | CIN |
| 4 | Brian McCann | ATL | 24 | Gregg Zaun | TOR |
| 5 | Jorge Posada | NYY | 25 | Geovany Soto | CHC |
| 6 | Bengie Molina | SF | 26 | Yorvit Torrealba | FA |
| 7 | Kenji Johjima | SEA | 27 | Josh Bard | SD |
| 8 | Jason Varitek | BOS | 28 | Ryan Doumit | PIT |
| 9 | Ivan Rodriguez | DET | 29 | Miguel Montero | ARI |
| 10 | Ramon Hernandez | BAL | 30 | Jason Kendall | FA |
| 11 | Paul Lo Duca | FA | 31 | Yadier Molina | STL |
| 12 | Jarrod Saltalamacchia | TEX | 32 | J.R. Towles | HOU |
| 13 | Johnny Estrada | MIL | 33 | Gerald Laird | TEX |
| 14 | Chris Snyder | ARI | 34 | Brian Schneider | WAS |
| 15 | A.J. Pierzynski | CHW | 35 | Jeff Mathis | LAA |
| 16 | Carlos Ruiz | PHI | 36 | Javier Valentin | CIN |
| 17 | John Buck | KC | 37 | Dioner Navarro | TB |
| 18 | Ronny Paulino | PIT | 38 | Rod Barajas | PHI |
| 19 | Michael Barrett | FA | 39 | Kelly Shoppach | CLE |
| 20 | Mike Napoli | LAA | 40 | Ramon A. Castro | FA |
| Top 40 First Basemen | |||||
| RK | Player | TM | RK | Player | TM |
| 1 | Albert Pujols | STL | 21 | Ryan Garko | CLE |
| 2 | Ryan Howard | PHI | 22 | Mike Jacobs | FLA |
| 3 | Prince Fielder | MIL | 23 | Nick Johnson | WAS |
| 4 | Mark Teixeira | ATL | 24 | Adam A. LaRoche | PIT |
| 5 | Lance Berkman | HOU | 25 | Casey Kotchman | LAA |
| 6 | Justin Morneau | MIN | 26 | Joey Votto | CIN |
| 7 | Victor Martinez | CLE | 27 | Aubrey Huff | BAL |
| 8 | Derrek Lee | CHC | 28 | Daric Barton | OAK |
| 9 | Carlos Pena | TB | 29 | Dmitri Young | WAS |
| 10 | Adrian Gonzalez | SD | 30 | Lyle Overbay | TOR |
| 11 | Paul Konerko | CHW | 31 | Conor Jackson | ARI |
| 12 | Nick Swisher | OAK | 32 | Nomar Garciaparra | LAD |
| 13 | Carlos Guillen | DET | 33 | Dan Johnson | OAK |
| 14 | James Loney | LAD | 34 | Kevin Millar | BAL |
| 15 | Todd Helton | COL | 35 | Ross Gload | KC |
| 16 | Kevin Youkilis | BOS | 36 | Matt Stairs | TOR |
| 17 | Alex Gordon | KC | 37 | Scott Hatteberg | CIN |
| 18 | Carlos Delgado | NYM | 38 | Marcus Thames | DET |
| 19 | Jarrod Saltalamacchia | TEX | 39 | Sean Casey | FA |
| 20 | Richie Sexson | SEA | 40 | Mike Lamb | FA |
| Top 40 second basemen | |||||
| RK | Player | TM | RK | Player | TM |
| 1 | Chase Utley | PHI | 21 | Felipe Lopez | WAS |
| 2 | Brandon Phillips | CIN | 22 | Mark DeRosa | CHC |
| 3 | B.J. Upton | TB | 23 | Brendan Harris | TB |
| 4 | Robinson Cano | NYY | 24 | Matthew Antonelli | SD |
| 5 | Brian Roberts | BAL | 25 | Luis Castillo | FA |
| 6 | Dan Uggla | FLA | 26 | Ryan Theriot | CHC |
| 7 | Ian Kinsler | TEX | 27 | Asdrubal Cabrera | CLE |
| 8 | Rickie Weeks | MIL | 28 | Yunel Escobar | ATL |
| 9 | Kelly Johnson | ATL | 29 | Kaz Matsui | COL |
| 10 | Howie Kendrick | LAA | 30 | Ray Durham | SF |
| 11 | Jeff Kent | LAD | 31 | Danny Richar | CHW |
| 12 | Placido Polanco | DET | 32 | Chris Burke | HOU |
| 13 | Orlando Hudson | ARI | 33 | Alexi Casilla | MIN |
| 14 | Dustin Pedroia | BOS | 34 | Josh Barfield | CLE |
| 15 | Aaron Hill | TOR | 35 | Erick Aybar | LAA |
| 16 | Mark Ellis | OAK | 36 | Mark Grudzielanek | KC |
| 17 | Tadahito Iguchi | FA | 37 | Ronnie Belliard | WAS |
| 18 | Freddy Sanchez | PIT | 38 | Marcus Giles | FA |
| 19 | Ty Wigginton | HOU | 39 | Mark Loretta | FA |
| 20 | Jose Lopez | SEA | 40 | Kevin Frandsen | SF |
| Top 40 shortstops | |||||
| RK | Player | TM | RK | Player | TM |
| 1 | Jose Reyes | NYM | 21 | Ryan Theriot | CHC |
| 2 | Hanley Ramirez | FLA | 22 | Yunel Escobar | ATL |
| 3 | Jimmy Rollins | PHI | 23 | Yuniesky Betancourt | SEA |
| 4 | Derek Jeter | NYY | 24 | Juan Uribe | CHW |
| 5 | Troy Tulowitzki | COL | 25 | David Eckstein | FA |
| 6 | Miguel Tejada | BAL | 26 | Jack Wilson | PIT |
| 7 | Michael Young | TEX | 27 | Alex Gonzalez | CIN |
| 8 | Carlos Guillen | DET | 28 | Cristian Guzman | WAS |
| 9 | Orlando Cabrera | LAA | 29 | Adam Everett | HOU |
| 10 | Khalil Greene | SD | 30 | Tony Pena | KC |
| 11 | Jhonny Peralta | CLE | 31 | Jeff Keppinger | CIN |
| 12 | Rafael Furcal | LAD | 32 | Omar Vizquel | SF |
| 13 | Edgar Renteria | DET | 33 | Aaron Miles | STL |
| 14 | J.J. Hardy | MIL | 34 | Reid Brignac | TB |
| 15 | Bobby Crosby | OAK | 35 | Mark Loretta | FA |
| 16 | Stephen Drew | ARI | 36 | Marco Scutaro | OAK |
| 17 | Julio Lugo | BOS | 37 | Josh Wilson | TB |
| 18 | Jason Bartlett | MIN | 38 | Donnie Murphy | OAK |
| 19 | Felipe Lopez | WAS | 39 | Nick Punto | MIN |
| 20 | Brendan Harris | TB | 40 | Brendan Ryan | STL |
| Top 40 third basemen | |||||
| RK | Player | TM | RK | Player | TM |
| 1 | Alex Rodriguez | FA | 21 | Ty Wigginton | HOU |
| 2 | David Wright | NYM | 22 | Casey Blake | CLE |
| 3 | Miguel Cabrera | FLA | 23 | Chad Tracy | ARI |
| 4 | Ryan Braun | MIL | 24 | Melvin Mora | BAL |
| 5 | Aramis Ramirez | CHC | 25 | Scott Rolen | STL |
| 6 | Chipper Jones | ATL | 26 | Evan Longoria | TB |
| 7 | Garrett Atkins | COL | 27 | Jose Bautista | PIT |
| 8 | Mike Lowell | FA | 28 | Joe Crede | CHW |
| 9 | Ryan Zimmerman | WAS | 29 | Mark DeRosa | CHC |
| 10 | Chone Figgins | LAA | 30 | Akinori Iwamura | TB |
| 11 | Adrian Beltre | SEA | 31 | Nomar Garciaparra | LAD |
| 12 | Hank Blalock | TEX | 32 | Brandon Inge | DET |
| 13 | Troy Glaus | TOR | 33 | Pedro Feliz | FA |
| 14 | Kevin Youkilis | BOS | 34 | Andy LaRoche | LAD |
| 15 | Alex Gordon | KC | 35 | Yunel Escobar | ATL |
| 16 | Josh Fields | CHW | 36 | Morgan Ensberg | SD |
| 17 | Eric Chavez | OAK | 37 | Mike Lamb | FA |
| 18 | Kevin Kouzmanoff | SD | 38 | Maicer Izturis | LAA |
| 19 | Edwin Encarnacion | CIN | 39 | Ian Stewart | COL |
| 20 | Mark Reynolds | ARI | 40 | Mark Loretta | FA |
| Top 12 DH-onlys | |||||
| RK | Player | TM | RK | Player | TM |
| 1 | David Ortiz | BOS | 7 | Mike Piazza | FA |
| 2 | Travis Hafner | CLE | 8 | Sammy Sosa | FA |
| 3 | Jim Thome | CHW | 9 | Jose Vidro | SEA |
| 4 | Frank Thomas | TOR | 10 | Mike Sweeney | FA |
| 5 | Jason Giambi | NYY | 11 | Shelley Duncan | NYY |
| 6 | Billy Butler | KC | 12 | Garrett Jones | MIN |
| Top 100 outfielders | |||||
| RK | Player | TM | RK | Player | TM |
| 1 | Matt Holliday | COL | 51 | Josh Hamilton | CIN |
| 2 | Vladimir Guerrero | LAA | 52 | Wily Mo Pena | WAS |
| 3 | Grady Sizemore | CLE | 53 | Juan Rivera | LAA |
| 4 | Alfonso Soriano | CHC | 54 | Casey Blake | CLE |
| 5 | Magglio Ordonez | DET | 55 | Mike Cameron | FA |
| 6 | Carlos Beltran | NYM | 56 | Jack Cust | OAK |
| 7 | Manny Ramirez | BOS | 57 | Corey Patterson | FA |
| 8 | Carl Crawford | TB | 58 | Willy Taveras | COL |
| 9 | Ichiro Suzuki | SEA | 59 | Rocco Baldelli | TB |
| 10 | Carlos Lee | HOU | 60 | Jose Guillen | FA |
| 11 | Lance Berkman | HOU | 61 | Garret Anderson | LAA |
| 12 | Alex Rios | TOR | 62 | Matt Kemp | LAD |
| 13 | Adam Dunn | CIN | 63 | J.D. Drew | BOS |
| 14 | Gary Sheffield | DET | 64 | Austin Kearns | WAS |
| 15 | B.J. Upton | TB | 65 | Bill Hall | MIL |
| 16 | Curtis Granderson | DET | 66 | Mark Teahen | KC |
| 17 | Eric Byrnes | ARI | 67 | Milton Bradley | FA |
| 18 | Chone Figgins | LAA | 68 | David DeJesus | KC |
| 19 | Bobby Abreu | NYY | 69 | Travis Buck | OAK |
| 20 | Hunter Pence | HOU | 70 | Cameron Maybin | DET |
| 21 | Nick Markakis | BAL | 71 | Carlos Quentin | ARI |
| 22 | Torii Hunter | FA | 72 | Justin Upton | ARI |
| 23 | Vernon Wells | TOR | 73 | Reggie Willits | LAA |
| 24 | Hideki Matsui | NYY | 74 | Coco Crisp | BOS |
| 25 | Brad Hawpe | COL | 75 | Jacoby Ellsbury | BOS |
| 26 | Chris Young | ARI | 76 | Adam Jones | SEA |
| 27 | Jermaine Dye | CHW | 77 | Luke Scott | HOU |
| 28 | Andruw Jones | FA | 78 | Xavier Nady | PIT |
| 29 | Aaron Rowand | PHI | 79 | Marlon Byrd | TEX |
| 30 | Juan Pierre | LAD | 80 | Jose Bautista | PIT |
| 31 | Jason Bay | PIT | 81 | Randy Winn | SF |
| 32 | Pat Burrell | PHI | 82 | Kenny Lofton | FA |
| 33 | Nick Swisher | OAK | 83 | Nate McLouth | PIT |
| 34 | Jeff Francoeur | ATL | 84 | Jason Kubel | MIN |
| 35 | Corey Hart | MIL | 85 | Mark DeRosa | CHC |
| 36 | Raul Ibanez | SEA | 86 | Scott Podsednik | CHW |
| 37 | Ken Griffey | CIN | 87 | Ryan Church | WAS |
| 38 | Delmon Young | TB | 88 | Shannon Stewart | FA |
| 39 | Barry Bonds | SF | 89 | Melky Cabrera | NYY |
| 40 | Johnny Damon | NYY | 90 | Andre Ethier | LAD |
| 41 | Jeremy Hermida | FLA | 91 | Brian Giles | SD |
| 42 | Josh Willingham | FLA | 92 | Matt Stairs | TOR |
| 43 | Shane Victorino | PHI | 93 | Geoff Jenkins | FA |
| 44 | Ryan Freel | CIN | 94 | Luis Gonzalez | FA |
| 45 | Gary Matthews | LAA | 95 | Jacque Jones | DET |
| 46 | Chris Duncan | STL | 96 | Shawn Green | FA |
| 47 | Rick Ankiel | STL | 97 | Lastings Milledge | NYM |
| 48 | Michael Cuddyer | MIN | 98 | Cody Ross | FLA |
| 49 | Moises Alou | NYM | 99 | Jonny Gomes | TB |
| 50 | Josh Fields | CHW | 100 | Dave Roberts | SF |
| Top 100 starting pitchers | |||||
| RK | Player | TM | RK | Player | TM |
| 1 | Johan Santana | MIN | 51 | Dustin McGowan | TOR |
| 2 | Jake Peavy | SD | 52 | Ted Lilly | CHC |
| 3 | Brandon Webb | ARI | 53 | Shaun Marcum | TOR |
| 4 | Josh Beckett | BOS | 54 | Tom Gorzelanny | PIT |
| 5 | C.C. Sabathia | CLE | 55 | Mark Buehrle | CHW |
| 6 | Justin Verlander | DET | 56 | Ian Snell | PIT |
| 7 | Roy Halladay | TOR | 57 | Bronson Arroyo | CIN |
| 8 | Erik Bedard | BAL | 58 | Gil Meche | KC |
| 9 | Carlos Zambrano | CHC | 59 | Roger Clemens | NYY |
| 10 | John Lackey | LAA | 60 | Zack Greinke | KC |
| 11 | Dan Haren | OAK | 61 | Bartolo Colon | LAA |
| 12 | Cole Hamels | PHI | 62 | Jair Jurrjens | DET |
| 13 | Aaron Harang | CIN | 63 | Ubaldo Jimenez | COL |
| 14 | Roy Oswalt | HOU | 64 | Matt Garza | MIN |
| 15 | Felix Hernandez | SEA | 65 | Jeremy Guthrie | BAL |
| 16 | Brad Penny | LAD | 66 | Chuck James | ATL |
| 17 | Fausto Carmona | CLE | 67 | Kevin Slowey | MIN |
| 18 | John Smoltz | ATL | 68 | Jon Lester | BOS |
| 19 | Scott Kazmir | TB | 69 | Tom Glavine | NYM |
| 20 | Kelvim Escobar | LAA | 70 | Jon Garland | CHW |
| 21 | Chien-Ming Wang | NYY | 71 | Dave Bush | MIL |
| 22 | Daisuke Matsuzaka | BOS | 72 | Brian Bannister | KC |
| 23 | Jered Weaver | LAA | 73 | Tim Wakefield | BOS |
| 24 | Ben Sheets | MIL | 74 | Greg Maddux | SD |
| 25 | Javier Vazquez | CHW | 75 | Miguel Batista | SEA |
| 26 | Tim Hudson | ATL | 76 | Kevin Millwood | TEX |
| 27 | A.J. Burnett | TOR | 77 | Noah Lowry | SF |
| 28 | Francisco Liriano | MIN | 78 | Ian Kennedy | NYY |
| 29 | Matt Cain | SF | 79 | Daniel Cabrera | BAL |
| 30 | Andy Pettitte | NYY | 80 | Jeff Suppan | MIL |
| 31 | Pedro Martinez | NYM | 81 | Jason Marquis | CHC |
| 32 | Tim Lincecum | SF | 82 | Anthony Reyes | STL |
| 33 | Chris Young | SD | 83 | Nate Robertson | DET |
| 34 | Yovani Gallardo | MIL | 84 | Paul Byrd | CLE |
| 35 | Jeff Francis | COL | 85 | Doug Davis | ARI |
| 36 | Joe Blanton | OAK | 86 | Jason Schmidt | LAD |
| 37 | Curt Schilling | BOS | 87 | Adam Loewen | BAL |
| 38 | Oliver Perez | NYM | 88 | Orlando Hernandez | NYM |
| 39 | John Maine | NYM | 89 | Mike Mussina | NYY |
| 40 | Barry Zito | SF | 90 | John Patterson | WAS |
| 41 | Jeremy Bonderman | DET | 91 | Micah Owings | ARI |
| 42 | Adam Wainwright | STL | 92 | Paul Maholm | PIT |
| 43 | James Shields | TB | 93 | Scott Baker | MIN |
| 44 | Rich Harden | OAK | 94 | Homer Bailey | CIN |
| 45 | Randy Johnson | ARI | 95 | Aaron Cook | COL |
| 46 | Rich Hill | CHC | 96 | Wandy Rodriguez | HOU |
| 47 | Dontrelle Willis | FLA | 97 | Braden Looper | STL |
| 48 | Chad Billingsley | LAD | 98 | Jose Contreras | CHW |
| 49 | Derek Lowe | LAD | 99 | Kenny Rogers | DET |
| 50 | Phil Hughes | NYY | 100 | Clay Buchholz | BOS |
| Top 50 relief pitchers | |||||
| RK | Player | TM | RK | Player | TM |
| 1 | Jonathan Papelbon | BOS | 26 | Brian Wilson | SF |
| 2 | Francisco Rodriguez | LAA | 27 | Matt Capps | PIT |
| 3 | J.J. Putz | SEA | 28 | Akinori Otsuka | TEX |
| 4 | Mariano Rivera | NYY | 29 | Al Reyes | TB |
| 5 | Francisco Cordero | FA | 30 | Jamie Walker | BAL |
| 6 | Bobby Jenks | CHW | 31 | Octavio Dotel | FA |
| 7 | Joe Nathan | MIN | 32 | David Weathers | CIN |
| 8 | Jose Valverde | ARI | 33 | Joel Zumaya | DET |
| 9 | Trevor Hoffman | SD | 34 | Jonathan Broxton | LAD |
| 10 | Takashi Saito | LAD | 35 | Rafael Betancourt | CLE |
| 11 | Brett Myers | PHI | 36 | Carlos Marmol | CHC |
| 12 | Billy Wagner | NYM | 37 | Pat Neshek | MIN |
| 13 | Huston Street | OAK | 38 | Aaron Heilman | NYM |
| 14 | Jason Isringhausen | STL | 39 | Scot Shields | LAA |
| 15 | Manuel Corpas | COL | 40 | Tony Pena | ARI |
| 16 | Rafael Soriano | ATL | 41 | B.J. Ryan | TOR |
| 17 | Chad Cordero | WAS | 42 | Jon Rauch | WAS |
| 18 | Joe Borowski | CLE | 43 | Eddie Guardado | FA |
| 19 | Joba Chamberlain | NYY | 44 | Bob Howry | CHC |
| 20 | Brad Lidge | HOU | 45 | Brad Hennessey | SF |
| 21 | Ryan Dempster | CHC | 46 | Derrick Turnbow | MIL |
| 22 | Todd Jones | DET | 47 | C.J. Wilson | SD |
| 23 | Eric Gagne | FA | 48 | Jeremy Accardo | TOR |
| 24 | Joakim Soria | KC | 49 | Joaquin Benoit | TEX |
| 25 | Kevin Gregg | FLA | 50 | Hideki Okajima | BOS |
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