Fantasy baseball 2020 tiered shortstop rankings

The shortstop position has gotten deeper for fantasy baseball owners over the last couple of seasons.

With the influx of new players and veterans stepping up, fantasy baseball owners have a deeper pool of shortstops to pick from. There’s no need to draft one early just to fill the position with the depth. You can wait until round 10 to draft a viable option.

Depending on your position in the draft and how you want to build your team, you’ll likely draft a shortstop in the second round. Francisco Lindor, Trevor Story and Alex Bregman may be the only first-round picks with a couple more falling to the second round.

The top guys will cost a pretty penny. Guys like Tim Anderson, Marcus Semien and Elvis Andrus will be available to you after round eight, at least, after you draft your team’s anchors. Either way, you won’t have anything to worry about at the shortstop position.

Unlike my rankings in year’s past, this list is going to include players that qualify at shortstop, based on ESPN’s fantasy baseball requirements. That means each player has to have played at least 20 games at the position in the prior season. This will be the same for every other position going forward.

I have ranked 30 shortstop and broke them into five tiers. There wasn’t enough to differentiate some players to make a sixth tier as I did with first base. Most fantasy owners will own two shortstops, a starter and a backup. Going past 30 wouldn’t make much sense, especially when the top eight or 10 options are stars.

So, with that out of the way, let’s get this slide show started. Here are my 2020 fantasy baseball tiered rankings for shortstop.