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He's 9th in wOBA and RC+ among qualified 3b and he's held back largely by his refusal to take a walk (which really hurts his OBP, obviously). Add that to the below average defensive performance and pretty poor baserunning figures and I guess it's not that shocking that he's rated a little lower than I figured he'd be.
There are some DAMN good players at 3b this year. In the end, he's just facing some pretty stiff competition at the position so it's driving him down the ranks a bit. I'd say I'd put him in the 8-10th most valuable 3b in the game this year, but when you start to include guys like Sano (who plays a lot of DH) and Harrison/Ramirez (who's WAR is boosted by their time spent at 2b) as well as some closer calls like Longoria, Gyorko, Machado and Seager, I could see how he'd fall down some of those lists depending on how they figure them.
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