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Early 2022 Fantasy Baseball Shortstop Rankings - 5x5 Roto Mixed Leagues

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RotoBaller's early 2022 fantasy baseball shortstop rankings for 5x5 mixed roto leagues. Our staff's draft rankings and tiers for MLB shortstops (SS).

It's still early in the 2022 MLB preseason, but we are ready to rock! In this article you'll find our team's early 2022 fantasy baseball shortstop rankings and tiers for 5x5 mixed roto leagues. This time of year is always exciting for baseball fans and fantasy baseball players, and we are more excited than ever. Our incredible MLB team is here to help you prep for the upcoming 2022 season. RotoBaller's MLB writing staff has already hit the ground running with our 2022 Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit, various fantasy baseball rankings for different league types and scoring formats, and draft analysis articles digging into this year's fantasy baseball sleepers and breakouts. If you don't already have RotoBaller's free fantasy baseball mobile app, make sure you download it and turn on the free push notification alerts to stay on top of the latest MLB news and fantasy analysis.

Four of our lead fantasy baseball analysts - Nick Mariano, Pierre Camus, Nicklaus Gaut and JB Branson - have analyzed all of the MLB offseason moves regarding free agents, trades and more. Their consensus fantasy baseball shortstop rankings for 2022 can be found below, and will be updated regularly up until opening day.

Be sure to also bookmark our main 2022 fantasy baseball rankings dashboard. It's already loaded up with tons of other great rankings including H2H point leagues, dynasty prospect rankings, impact rookie rankings for 2022 and dynasty/keeper rankings as well.

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Fantasy Baseball Shortstop Rankings

Staff ranks are as of January 27th, 2022. They are for 5x5 category mixed roto leagues, and will be updated regularly on our main fantasy baseball rankings dashboard.

Ranking Tier Player Position
1 1 Fernando Tatis Jr. SS/OF
2 1 Trea Turner 2B/SS
3 1 Bo Bichette SS
4 2 Marcus Semien 2B/SS
5 2 Tim Anderson SS
6 2 Trevor Story SS
7 2 Xander Bogaerts SS
8 2 Wander Franco 3B/SS
9 2 Adalberto Mondesi 3B/SS
10 2 Francisco Lindor SS
11 2 Corey Seager SS
12 2 Javier Baez 2B/SS
13 3 Jazz Chisholm Jr. 2B/SS
14 3 Carlos Correa SS
15 3 Jorge Polanco 2B/SS
16 4 Bobby Witt Jr. SS
17 4 Dansby Swanson SS
18 4 Jake Cronenworth 1B/2B/SS
19 4 Gleyber Torres 2B/SS
20 4 Willy Adames SS
21 4 Chris Taylor 2B/3B/SS/OF
22 5 Eugenio Suarez 3B/SS
23 5 Nicky Lopez SS
24 5 Luis Urias 2B/3B/SS
25 5 Brandon Crawford SS
26 5 Amed Rosario SS/OF
27 5 Isiah Kiner-Falefa SS
28 6 Brendan Rodgers 2B/SS
29 6 Josh Rojas 2B/3B/SS/OF
30 6 Gavin Lux 2B/SS/OF
31 6 Gio Urshela 3B/SS
32 7 J.P. Crawford SS
33 7 Didi Gregorius SS
34 7 Andres Gimenez 2B/SS
35 7 Edmundo Sosa 2B/SS
36 7 Oneil Cruz SS
37 7 Nico Hoerner 2B/SS
38 7 Miguel Rojas SS
39 8 Joey Wendle 2B/3B/SS
40 8 Paul DeJong SS
41 8 Jonathan Villar 2B/3B/SS
42 8 David Fletcher 2B/SS
43 8 Jorge Mateo SS/OF
44 8 Elvis Andrus SS
45 8 Jose Barrero SS/OF
46 8 Ramon Urias 2B/SS/3B
47 8 Tyler Wade 2B/3B/SS/OF
48 9 Jose Iglesias 2B/SS
49 9 Leury Garcia 2B/3B/SS/OF
50 9 Nick Gordon 2B/SS/OF
51 9 Willi Castro 2B/SS/OF
52 9 Bryson Stott SS
53 9 Taylor Walls SS
54 9 Ha-Seong Kim 2B/3B/SS
55 9 Niko Goodrum 2B/SS/OF
56 9 Kyle Farmer 3B/SS
57 9 Nick Ahmed SS
58 9 Kevin Newman 2B/SS
59 10 Cole Tucker 2B/SS/OF
60 10 Mauricio Dubon 2B/3B/SS/OF
61 10 Alcides Escobar 2B/SS
62 10 Santiago Espinal 3B/SS
63 10 Josh Harrison 2B/3B/SS/OF
64 10 Aledmys Diaz 1B/2B/3B/SS/OF
65 10 Andrelton Simmons SS
66 10 Royce Lewis SS
67 10 CJ Abrams SS
68 10 Marwin Gonzalez 1B/2B/3B/SS/OF
69 10 Jeremy Pena SS
70 10 Yu Chang 1B/3B/SS
71 10 Geraldo Perdomo SS
72 10 Austin Martin SS
73 10 Yonny Hernandez 2B/3B/SS
74 10 Jeter Downs SS


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