MLB 2017: Top ten second basemen

8. Rougned Odor, Texas Rangers

Odor will probably always be remembered for throwing a punch and decking Jose Bautista (something most of the league has wanted to do for years), but he is quickly climbing up the second-base ranks. He has already played 384 games in the big leagues before his 23rd birthday, with 58 home runs and a respectable .265/.302/.464 line. Odor hit 33 home runs in 2016, and has also knocked two out in the playoffs the last two seasons.

There are still plenty of roug(h) edges to Odor’s game, notably his wild temper that has emerged on more than one occasion. He also has a penchant for swinging at nearly everything even remotely near the plate. Odor walked only 19 times last year while swinging at over 40 percent of pitches outside the strike zone, which was actually a step back from 2015. He will have to continue tightening his zone up to keep improving as a hitter. Odor’s game is very similar to Jonathan Schoop of the Baltimore Orioles. Schoop is on the fringes of the top-10, and had an All-Star caliber first half to 2016 before his bad habits as a hitter led to a lengthy slump in the second half.

Odor is the best of the young second baseman in baseball, and can do some things on the diamond that are just flat-out unfair.

If Odor puts it all together this year, he should make his first All-Star team and push towards a top-five ranking in the league.