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Here are the June rest-of-season position rankings and overall top 300. Most of the positions have expanded rankings this month, just in case anyone was disappointed by Ender Inciarte’s absence in the May column.
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Top 300 | SP | RP | OF | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | C | DH
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First Baseman Rankings
Dropping off: Travis d’Arnaud (45th), Marwin Gonzalez (53rd)
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Obviously, I’m not yet completely sold on Jared Walsh here. He puts the ball on the ground a lot, and his 39% hard-hit rate ranks him 82nd of 124 batting-title qualifiers. Statcast thinks he should be batting .264 and slugging .457 (he’s actually at .306 and .570, respectively). That he’s in a terrific ballpark for left-handed power hitters is a good thing (though his road numbers are even better than his home numbers this year), but I’m not going to count on him continuing to hit for average.
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Ryan Mountcastle turned in a decent .256/.293/.465 line with four homers in May, but that still came with a 31/3 K/BB ratio. It was a given that plate discipline would be a big issue for him in the majors, but I thought he’d make more contact that this; he has the third-worst swinging strike rate in the majors behind Javier Baez and Michael A. Taylor. If the Orioles stick with him, I expect that he’ll get around to helping mixed leaguers. However, at this point, a demotion to Triple-A when Austin Hays returns could be the best thing for him.