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MLB Free Agent Market Features Killer Shortstop Class

Nov 14, 2020

Major League Baseball, Offseason, Opinions & Predictions

The Major League Baseball free agent market typically features few, if any compelling shortstops. Naturally, in a year that makes no sense, that position is oozing with All-Star caliber players this offseason. ...

Trevor Story Earning Consideration as One of Baseball’s Elite Young Shortstops

Kyle O'Neill

Aug 21, 2018

Colorado Rockies, Opinions & Predictions

When Rockies' shortstop Trevor Story got the nod to be Troy Tulowitzki's replacement, he bursted on the scene in a huge way. In Story's first month in the big leagues, he hit 10 home runs in 92 at-bats. Then ca...

First-Place Red Sox Get Xander Bogaerts Back from Disabled List

Jason Kelly

Apr 27, 2018

Boston Red Sox, Breaking News, Transactions

The 19-5 Boston Red Sox are about to get one of their best hitters back on Friday night. Xander Bogaerts, who has been out since April 9 with an ankle injury, has been activated from the 10-day disabled list an...

BBE 2018 Positional Rankings: MLB’s Top 15 Shortstops

Tom Dorsa

Mar 23, 2018

Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

Over the offseason, the team of contributors at Baseball Essential voted upon every position on the diamond, compiling our comprehensive Top 15 countdowns for the 2018 season. Major League Baseball is overfl...

Eager Seager

Matt Roffe

Jan 21, 2016

Los Angeles Dodgers, Opinions & Predictions

With a large number of highly touted minor league players making big league impacts this past season, two-thousand fifteen had proven itself as the ‘birthplace’ for the next new generation of baseball greats. A...

What’s next for Ian Desmond?

Alex Yalen

Nov 12, 2015

Features, Headlines, Offseason, Opinions & Predictions, Rumors, Transactions, Washington Nationals

Shortstops that are both defensively capable and offensively dynamic are few and far between, and 29-year-old Ian Desmond has clearly been one of them. But in coming off among the worst years of his professiona...

Can We All Calm Down About Carlos Correa?

Jake Lighter

Aug 7, 2015

Features, Houston Astros, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

In a recently published Fangraphs article, Jeff Sulivan investigates whether the 20-year-old rookie Carlos Correa of the Houston Astros is the best shortstop in Baseball. The idea that we can bestow the title o...

Power Rankings: Top 15 Shortstops in ’15

Will Gribin

Feb 16, 2015

Opinions & Predictions

Happy Monday sports fans, it's time for the next installment in my positional power rankings for the 2015 season. This is week is shortstops and next week we will continue with the top 15 catchers (2/23), fo...

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