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Hey, where are everyone going? A year ago, the second base looked like a place “it”. Mookie Betts It was expected to move there permanently from the right field and Xander Boguerts He ran from a short trail, while everyone visibly awaited the arrival of top perspectives Jackson Holliday.
Well, the position at once looks more infertility. Betts and Bogerts are at a short rate, Jose Altuve is a striker, Luis Arraez spends more time in the first base and a particular striker, Holliday’s first big league test was Rocky and now looks Alex Bregman It will not change in Boston.
Soon the position could see the appeal of exciting prospects, from Kristian Campbell to Travis Bazzan to Christian Moore. For now, this is a place dominated by veterans. At least they’ll get a little jazzier!
Our series of positions in eight parts continues with the first 10 seconds of the bases that entered the 2025 season.
2024. Statistics: .254/.316/.349, 7 HR, 87 WRC+, 2.5 fwar
2025. ZIPS projections: .254/.317/.360, 9 HR, 90 WRC+, 2.6 fwar
A new rule: If you steal 50 base and win a platinum glove, you will get a place on the top-10 list.
2024. Statistics: (Injured – not played)
2025 ZIPS: 254/.340/.449, 19 HR, 114 WRC+, 3.6 Fwar
Coming from the lost year by recovering from the shoulder surgery, can McLain pick up where he stopped when he announced .864 OPs and was a player with three wins in 89 games as Novalia in 2023? If he can, it will rapidly increase this list.
2024. Statistics: .237/.294/.417, 6 HR, 98 WRC+, 0.9 fwar
2025 ZIPS: .254/.310/.394, 11 HR, 98 WRC+, 2.8 fwar
For now, Edman begins the season as Dodgers’s main second basic man. The fact that he could play equally easily in the center and probably will work there, talks about the characteristic versatility he brings. The Switch-Hitter deleted the left-hander in his short sample with Dodgers after the beginning of the year missed the recovery of joint and ankle injuries and then earned NLCS MVP honestly as he starred in postseason. It was a good reminder that only a few years was removed from the 6.2 BWar season.
2024. Statistics: .273/.335/.373, 7 HR, 103 WRC+, 4.0 fwar
2025 ZIPS: .275/.335/.385, 9 HR, 105 WRC+, 4.2 fwar
The cubes missed Hoerneric’s glove during the Tokyo series. Fortunately for them, he may be ready for the home opening day. It remains to be seen whether there will be permanent effects from the Flexor tendon surgery, which he underwent in October, but if it looks like the same type on his return, his defense, speed and contact skills will almost continue to make him one of the most respected other basic persons in the league.
2024. Statistics: .244/.311/.473, 21 HR, 123 WRC+, 2.3 FWAR
2025 ZIPS: .242/.323/.458, 21 HR, 125 WRC+, 2.9 fwar
Too bad Rays will have to play in the park this year, but Lowe and left-handed Rays attackers could eventually benefit from switching to Field George M. Steinbrenner, where the right field wall is eight feet closer than Trops. The new field played extremely adapted to Hitter. After years with 21 Homer, don’t shock when Lowe sets up a high career in the category this year.
2024. Statistics: .251/.303/.404, 10 HR, 95 WRC+, 1,3 fwar
2025 ZIPS: .261/.314/.446, 18 HR, 108 WRC+, 2.4 FWAR
When he is healthy, he tries to perform as one of the best players in his position. But staying on the field was a problem for Albies, which was limited to 99 games last year. In addition, although his Bat-Lopt skills remain great, last year he was a rather worrying decline in the difficult rates, which made him an average league body when he played. Then again, every second season in the last four years has been an All-Star year for Albies. So, if that trend is glued, I suppose his fourth season is an All-Star ahead!
2024. Statistics: .252/.298/.340, 9 HR, 83 WRC+, 2.8 fwar
2025 ZIPS: .267/.327/.397, 13 HR, 108 WRC+, 4.6 fwar
He looks more and more like his abusive breakthrough season in 2022, was extraordinary, as his ops and hard -affected rates have decreased dramatically in the last few years. At the very least, they will have to pull their percentage on the basis above .300. Still, his elite defense and the foundation will make him a valuable Toronto player. That it was worth 9.0 BWar for the last two years, while the publication of Ops+ 11 percent below the league average shows how special its glove is. If the park factors are any predictor, he may play at the Rogers Center at least a little stimulated from Cleveland.
2024. Statistics: .256/.324/.436, 24 HR, 110 WRC+, 4.0 fwar
2025 ZIPS: .251/.318/.448, 24 HR, 115 WRC+, 3.6 fwar
After going to the center and third, Chisholm returned to where he started. It will allow offensive upside down as a few others at another basis. After the All-Star 2022 campaign, Chisholm did not completely take the jump he was capable of, but in the second half he had a .815 ops with Yankees last season. His bat will be crucial in lifting the setting while Yankei dealing with a lithium of injuries.
2024. Statistics: .237/.308/.391, 23 HR, 99 WRC+, 4.2 fwar
2025 ZIPS: .249/.321/.424, 23 HR, 112 WRC+, 4.4 fwar
How many players could be worth four victories in the fall of the year? Despite hitting the league average last year, Semien takes place with all-Star campaigns, and ended up in the first three at the MVP voting in two of the last four and three of the last five seasons. Ultimate Ironman and one of the best defenders of the game, Semien missed more than three games in six of the last seven seasons. Over the last four years, he leads all other basics in the war.
2024. Statistics: .292/.372/.560, 36 HR, 151 WRC+, 6.3 fwar
2025 ZIPS: .270/.350/.483, 24 HR, 128 WRC+, 4.0 fwar
One of the most interesting stars in sports, Marta is an unquestionably major offensive threat in his position that started in the 2025 season. In the last two years, he has 61 Homer, and he comes out of 2024 All-Star campaign in which he won the Silver Slugger Award and finished third in the MVP voting while hitting the ball stronger than ever before. His power on the plate makes it easier to miss that he also had one of his best defense seasons by the most advanced measuring data. WITH Christian walker Left, his importance for the intriguing team of Arizona goes to another comma.
Honorary mention:: Luis Garcia Jr. (Washington Nationals,, Gleyber Torres (Detroit Tigers,, Tyler Fitzgerald (San Francisco Giants)
Rowan Kavner is MLB writer for Fox Sports. He had previously covered La Dodgers, La Clippers and Dallas Cowboys. The city of LSU, Rowan was born in California, grew up in Texas and then moved to the West Coast of 2014. Follow it on x on @Rowankavrner.
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