Braves: Apparently, Ozzie Albies isn’t a top 10 second baseman

Every offseason, MLB Network collaborates to make a top 10 list at each position. I try to pay them no mind, because their usually laughably pathetic, but I just couldn’t ignore this list of the top 10 second baseman in the game, which didn’t include Ozzie Albies.

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Last year, Ozzie Albies also wasn’t included, but I at least could stomach it a little bit because he was injured for most of the 2022 campaign. It was somewhat reasonable to wonder if he would come back the same player.

But Albies didn’t just bounce back, he arguably turned in the best season of his career, hitting a career-high 33 homers with an .849 OPS and accumulating 4.7 WAR. He was named an All-Star for the third time in his career and even finished 16th in the NL MVP race… yet, he’s not even a top 10 second baseman in the game.

Some of the names on the list in front of him are just mind-numbing as well. Nico Hoerner is a nice player, but take your defense and shove it where it came from. The guy has a career .723 OPS and has never hit more than 10 homers in a season.

Zack Gelof??? Is this some kind of joke? Gelof has 69 career games under his belt. What are we doing here? The same with Edouard Julien. He’s a promising player, but has only played 109 games and still isn’t putting up better numbers than Albies.

I could keep going, but you get the point. Ozzie Albies is undoubtedly a top 5 second baseman in the game. A lot of players at second base have experienced hot stretches or good years, but they always seem to fade. Albies hasn’t. In every full season he’s played, he’s basically a lock for 25+ homers, an OPS over .800, and 4+ WAR. There aren’t five other second baseman that can say that over a 5+ year sample size.

It goes to show, just because “analysts” are hired by a company with MLB in the name doesn’t mean they know a damn thing about the game of baseball. It’s pretty sad and pathetic honestly, because they are either that dumb, or they desperately need the clicks.

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