Staff rankings: First base by Nick Fleder February 14, 2012 Starting yesterday, we began to release our staff consensus rankings by position, starting with catchers. The staffers who ranked are Josh Shepardson, Ben Pritchett, Brad Johnson and yours truly. We used FantasyPros.com to create our composite rankings, and if you follow the link provided in our rankings, you can see how ours compared with a slew of other experts’. As you did yesterday, assume a 12-team, mixed league with standard 5×5 settings. Click on the links with our names to get to our Twitter accounts, where we’ll happily answer your baseball and fantasy questions year-round. 2012 First Basemen Rankings Player Name NickFleder BenPrichett JoshShepardson BradJohnson THTComposite FantasyProsExpert Consensus Miguel Cabrera 1 1 1 2 1 compare Albert Pujols 2 2 2 1 2 compare Joey Votto 3 3 3 3 3 compare Adrian Gonzalez 5 4 5 4 4 compare Prince Fielder 4 5 4 5 5 compare Mark Teixeira 6 6 6 6 6 compare Eric Hosmer 7 7 7 9 7 compare Paul Konerko 10 8 8 7 8 compare Mike Napoli 8 9 10 10 9 compare Carlos Santana 9 10 9 13 10 compare Pablo Sandoval 11 15 11 11 11 compare Michael Morse 12 14 13 12 12 compare Kevin Youkilis 15 12 17 8 13 compare Lance Berkman 14 17 12 15 14 compare Michael Young 13 11 21 14 15 compare Freddie Freeman 17 16 15 22 16 compare Ike Davis 19 23 14 17 17 compare Billy Butler 21 20 16 16 18 compare Joe Mauer 18 13 – 20 19 compare Ryan Howard 22 19 19 19 20 compare Paul Goldschmidt 16 24 18 24 21 compare Michael Cuddyer 20 29 20 18 22 compare Howard Kendrick 25 18 – 21 23 compare Mark Reynolds 23 22 23 23 24 compare Kendrys Morales 24 26 22 – 25 compare Fantasy Baseball Rankings powered by FantasyPros, the leading aggregator of expert fantasy advice. Tomorrow… Second base