Ranking the TOP 50 Players in MLB for 2022 

I know bro can we get a let’s go for him

And that’s why Adolis Garcia is the best player in baseball

“You can call me a biased Mets fan if you want, but you have to agree that the best overall player in baseball is of course: Brandon Nimmo”

So true tho

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Buxton is entirely overrated...got to play full season(s) before being considered amongst the best

a little salty huh

As an Astros fan, I completely agree with this

Shut up, we all know that Buxton is better then George Springer

@@isaacpeterson7273 for 30 games a year

Judging from his other CF rankings, I'd assume Mullins plays too many games

@@pullt fr like I get Mullins had one breakout season but dude SHOULD have been 3rd in MVP over Semien imo

@@saucefan1 nah not over semien

@@prodmyle very debatable I think they were very close Mullins had better average Semien with better ops+ and wrc+ I’m pretty sure but Mullins was a better defender and got more stolen bases so it really depends on what you’re focusing on I just personally think Mullins should have gotten 3rd over Semien

@@saucefan1 semien also had the most homers ever for a second baseman in a season… that along with the advanced stats give him the edge imo

Lol, true 😂

I guess

I was thinking the same thing. althought Im a royals fan and might be bias, he deserves to be at least top 30 in this list as he led the league in homers and rbis

No ye ur right he should be coming from a padres fan

And where’s albies?

I agree

@@sebastianfrickel3217 where is Albies, Riley, Morton, and fried

RBI’s are a team stat, and since he’s on a good team he will always have high RBI’s.

@@dylben2131 we aren’t always a good team we’ve only been to the playoffs twice with him. Look at the numbers with our bad teams even, still 100 RBIs and 30 HR in every season. Also I agree that RBIs can be very misleading so look at his career with RISP which takes opportunity out of it he has a slash line of .317/.393/.566. He is a top 50 player every year until he shows some sort of decline. There is a handful of players in baseball that can do the same thing he can

Lol he's been on a good team for 2 years of his career

Bro he just hit 2 home runs against the Phillies

Ohtani

Vintage Cabrera

Acuna has some of the most impressive opposite field power I’ve ever seen. Freddie freeman has even said how incredible it is to see, said it’s like he’s hitting lefty. These young studs are insane

yes soto can hit, but his arm is super weak in the outfield. in order to be a complete player your defense has to be good and soto is one of sorriest defensive players in MLB

@@markfennell1604 I’m pretty sure Soto was statistically a better defender than players like Bryce Harper. Who people said would win MVP because he has “better defense”

Thank you 🙏🏻

Harper above them both but vlady above j ram but not trea

Vlad had one great season.. I wouldn't put him above someone who consistently does it every year..

Same for ohtani though

Yes and let's not forget that Juan Soto had a stellar second half last season ... and it still wasn't better than Harper's second half. Carried the franchise that was hurting everywhere except wheeler and was a game or three away from ending the braves postseason before it got started.

Welp… this aged poorly

You said it ^^^^

If he does decent next year he's #1

Yeli n Beli in 2018 n 2019 were legends, Yelich was my favorite one 😔

Love it !!! Dodger Fans tears taste So Sweet!!!

Cody Bellinger is hitless in 2022 and not very good Spring training. Can’t believe I bought his rookie card PSA 10 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@@kicksg3786 it’s seriously mind boggling what has happened to him. Just goes to show, don’t put someone in Cooperstown after a year or 2

@@jamesconnolly3042 Beli hit a HR vs Twins but OPS is not even .400 I hope he makes a comeback in 2022!

Have you seen Mike Trout's numbers this first month? This list NAILED IT for #1!!!!! Power, speed, fielding , OBP, he's doing it all. Meanwhile Shohei's mediocre to good. It's gonna be playoffs for Angels if those 2 stay healthy.

Rendon 🥲

and they never will be 😢

Best shortstop in Padres history

W take

Fr

Same

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Hitting a bunch of HRs doesn't magically make up for all his issues

@@DrewB2400 his only issue is his framing yet Marc still would put Buster Posey on this list before he ever puts Salvy

Yea I agree Jessie winker definitely should be on the list.

Ya castelanos should have been on

I mean votto got snubbed too...

"I thought Castellanos was going to be top twenty! " Well, he IS in the top twenty by my book. Half the fun of lists like this is arguing about who is included or excluded, what the rankings are, etc. But when a list is just plain silly --- Castellanos not in the top 50!!!! --- it's not even worth argument. (I'm NOT a Reds fan, BTW.)

Please post WRC+ and WAR if you want to make an argument about which player is more valuable.

@@stevencurrall6944 Yeah but CF isn't a very deep position. That being said, dismissing Nimmo completely isn't fair.

Nah he’s actually kinda overrated shouldn’t have been an alstar his rate stats are mid. Springer, Perez, castellanos, winked, arvisial Garcia, Willy Adames, hader, are better and that’s just off the top of my head. Heck Robbie ray could be in before him

@@joshconnell8797 you're smoking weed

@@coletonheisner3729 lmfao where am I wrong there

@@joshconnell8797 nah teoscar is insane ur a hater

@@meadalofhonor1234 tell him where he’s wrong

Yup got that for next year!

Agree

Marc hates the Braves because he's jealous that they're much better than his Mets so he will avoid ranking our boy's correctly. Charlie Morton, Austin Riley and Max Fried should all be ranked in this list not just Freddie and Ronald. Also how are Josh Hader and Liam Hendricks not in this list over some of the guys that are always injured those dudes are stud relievers.

@@blairmcbride5437 Max Fried isn’t even a top 15 starting pitcher. He is very good but he isn’t a top 50 player.

@@blairmcbride5437 max fried should not be in this list. He does overrate Mets tho. Scherzer is damn near 40, just had arm soreness limit him in the playoffs, and is ranked higher than a dude who finished above him in cy young voting lol. As for Franco being ranked and Riley not, that is pretty crazy

@@tristankenzevich8078 I definitely disagree Max is one of the main reasons that my Braves are world series champions he was amazing after the all star break. Marc had him ranked 29th which was total bullshit.

That’s a really cool idea

I've done stuff like that before and it's kinda iffy. Ofc you'd have to rank 150 starting pitchers (5 for each of the 30 teams, maybe even some more), the lower you get down on the list it gets really tough to rank, and when averaging out the rankings, it values depth over the amount of star guys a team has. But I would love to see a way it can be done

@@sw120 Oh for sure, it's not small feat, but it's still fun to go through all the teams, especially when you learn about guys you didn't really know of who actually have solid stats

He’s 1

@@italkbaseball621 no

Not even top 5 in my book🙂 8-9th at best

@@fullcircle8231 what an absolutely terrible take… there’s literally no stats to defend that awful take

Soto is #1 easily. Well actually trout #1 soto #2 ohtani somehwere in top 10 maybe top 5

He has the potential to be an all-time great. The next decade plus will tell. I'm so excited to see his career, he's my favorite player.

I think tatis deserves that spot and I agree with u in the other things

You r a dodger fan ofc u hate Tatis

fr you cant tell me nimmo is better than smith and springer

What a dumbshit list lol WIll SMith not in the top 50? lol

I like how ur saying that with a dodgers pfp respect he’s good

I don’t know, it’s crazy

Vladdy?

Funny thing is they don't DRS say he's slightly above average, OAA says he's slightly below average. At this point in time he's average only going to get better.

Stats dont lie

@@SirGreyy I have watched every blue jay game and he made few errors and scooped a lot of bad throws. That's what you want as a first baseman. Defensive stats don't really matter.

And definitely Javy Baez

He’s hit over .250 for 7 out of 9 seasons, and is the best defensive shortstop

Admitted bias too, but he was ranked 22 last year and was the same player this year he’s been for the last 7 years.

Hello fellow jays fans also.. where is Teoscar at??

World Series MVP against the Mets he could be biased.

Also stop hating on Marc like you guys can't do better. Most baseball knowledge on yt maybe besides foolish

Vladimir Guerrero Jr at #11

How??

@@Luckyproductions777 probably consistency and defense. Idk

@@drogers1701 what a weird dude

Who are "most"? The man was 20th in the *AL* MVP ranking in 2021, which was by far his best and longest season in the majors. In order to project him top 20, you're saying that he's not only going to repeat 2021, but comfortably improve on it. That is very much a reach for me. His Statcast metrics do look awesome, but it's also one season, and he plays corner OF.

@@notstarboard wtf u on kyle tucker is top 15 for me, look at his metrics idgaf about mvp cause voters can't vote there's no stats that don't back up that tucker isn't a top 15 player

@@notstarboard MVP ranking is a fucking joke, I couldn't care less about it. Tucker was easily top 5 player in the AL last year, so if he even comes close to his 2021 he's easily top 15.

Nah he's not

@@davidrusso6410 yes he is

@@David-bl2si bruh his stats have sucked every year until now he was awful he needs a miracle to get on this list u cant base everything off 1 season

They used 2 different balls... he was a product of that... hitting and pitching wise.

Superman Shohei gotten even better in 2022 then 2021 and should've won back to back MVPs

Hahaha

Classic

“And 2023”

Until the season starts!

I guess leading the majors in home runs and winning a Cy Young isn't good enough to make the top 50

he’s retired

I mean he retired, so you can’t really rank him for next year. But yes, one of the best catchers ever

Probably top 40. His past years weren’t all that, but last year was his best since his mvp season. So I’d say top 40. But there’s no way he would be above max Muncy still. Muncy- the dude with 35+ hr seasons in all 3 full seasons he’s played

He just missed it. Was 51!

@@GiraffeNeckMarc how does realmuto make top 50 but Mullins who was a top 3 center fielder last year

@@zacherygoldstein1810 Given the dearth of catching talent in MLB, a complete catcher like Realmuto is valuable beyond what shows up in a typical WAR calculation (and he does well there too). I don't hate putting him in the top 50 when he's been doing it for years and Mullins has just had the one breakout year. If Mullins does it again in 2022 you can bet he'll be on this list for 2023, and not way down near 50 either. Edit: Actually started the video. Mullins easily beats Nimmo & Bichette for me. Bichette is up at 5.9 bWAR, but that's inflated by positive DRS values when he was 6th percentile for OAA last year. Meanwhile Mullins was 96th percentile for OAA last year. Nimmo had a great 2021 when he played, but injuries are a huge issue for then. You gotta be more productive than Nimmo to make this list when you're always on the IL half of the year.

Mullins had one good season

@@jenmuse1745 so did vlad

Exactly!!!

😂😂

That on base percentage needs work to nudge into the 50. Itching for him to makes the leap to .350 for better use of his speed tool. Do that and continue to slug .500 is where I hope he settles in at.

No he’s not “without a doubt”. Braves fans overrate the guy like crazy. Great defender but slightly above average hitter at best. Only thing impressive is his power numbers…but his OBP, OPS, etc not impressive whatsoever. Career OPS+ is like 108

8th best second baseman so no

He really put guys like Judge ahead of Vladdy... I have no idea what he's watching...

i’m gonna assume he’s a guy marc has at 51-55 because he did say there were 75-80 people who had an argument for this video and i think springer was a cusp kinda guy

It's partially because he was getting pitched around that his on base was so good tho

I would have had him around 20 personally. Putting guys like Altuve and Robert in front of him is just lunacy to me. Elite CF defense, extremely good bat, switch hitter, just entering his physical prime, good speed, great eye, and all that production (6 bWAR) on a bad team, like, the man is incredible. I'm honestly higher on him than guys like Machado and Arenado going into 2022.

Plus he hit well in the playoffs.