{"id":887882,"date":"2026-09-08T11:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/887882\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:14:23","slug":"b-rs-undisputed-mlb-shortstop-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/887882\/","title":{"rendered":"B\/R&#8217;s Undisputed MLB Shortstop Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Primary Starter: Ezequiel Tovar<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Supporting Cast: Willi Castro<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Ezequiel Tovar ranks 140th among 141 qualified hitters with a 54 OPS+ on the year, and he has also slid from a Gold Glove winner to a slightly below-average defender (-2 DRS, 0 OAA) in just two short years. Despite those struggles, he has started 119 games at shortstop, and he has four years remaining on his seven-year, $63.5 million extension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Primary Starter: Trevor Story<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Supporting Cast: Andruw Monasterio, Marcelo Mayer, Isiah Kiner-Falefa<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">It has been another injury-plagued season for Trevor Story following his 2025 rebound. When he has managed to take the field, he has posted a 71 OPS+ and a 31.7 percent strikeout rate in 48 games. After Marcelo Mayer received a brief trial, suffered an injury and was eventually traded, Andruw Monasterio provided serviceable play at shortstop in Story&#8217;s absence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Primary Starter: Ezequiel Tovar Supporting Cast: Willi Castro Ezequiel Tovar ranks 140th among 141 qualified hitters with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-887882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}