Who is the best MLB campocort in 2025?
Our classification of the best in each position continues with the defenders of the short stops. Discover who will win this field full of stars.
Spring training camps are underway, which means it is time to analyze baseball status. As part of our preview of the 2025 season of the MLB, Buster Olney of AM850 Bring your classification series by positions back, in which you surveyed people in the industry to help you classify the 10 best players in each position.
Today, we classify cream and cream in the campocorto.
The objective of this exercise is to identify the best players for the 2025 season, not who could be the best in five years or throughout their career. We will present a position per day during the next two weeks under the following calendar: Receptors, First Base, Second Base, Third Base, corner gardeners (24/2), central gardeners (25/2), designated batters (26/2) , opening pitchers (27/2) and relieved (28/2).
Juan Soto established a record with a $ 765 million contract this winter, and with the growing uncertainty about the job situation of baseball when the collective bargaining agreement expires in 22 months, it is difficult to predict who could generate the same type of fervor of bids that Soto Vladimir Guerrero Jr. most likely will obtain a great contract, but probably closer to what Mike Trout obtained ($ 429.5 million) that Soto. Kyle Tucker will also do it very well in free agency next fall, like a multi -tool player who can hit with power, run and play a strong defense.
But Gunnar Henderson of the Orioles could be the next player to move on to a free agent status similar to Soto’s in his career, with so many reasons to obtain a mega-mega-megantrato, for many reasons.
1. He is 23 years old and is already a preeminent player, having generated 6.2 War and 9.1 War in his first two full seasons. He will arrive at free agency when he is 27 years old.
2. It is a phenomenal athlete, a good campocort now, but, unless it is injured, it should be able to move easily as it ages, third, second or first base.
3. It is assumed that it will reach the free market shortly after the next collective work contract is signed, which is when the teams, with a lot of money, are usually more aggressive. Even if there is a prolonged labor struggle, Henderson will probably come to free agency at a relatively young age. (A warning: If the next agreement includes some type of top and salary floor system that reduces the possibility of megantrates, Henderson could be the most affected player. To date, the union has worked with the principle of never accepting a salary stop).
However, there is a significant difference between Henderson and Soto: the gardener had better control of the Strike area at an early age. Last year, Henderson received 78 bases per ball and accumulated 159 strikeouts. These figures should probably approach for Henderson to get those mega-mega-mega-offers like those received by Soto, and it is possible that he does it. Henderson is very young and is still learning.
The Orioles could try to anticipate Henderson’s free agency, as the Royals did with Bobby Witt Jr., signing it with a long -term contract before it reaches the market. But keep in mind that Henderson is represented by Scott Boras, the agent who negotiated Soto’s contract, and Boras almost always takes his clients to free agency, to obtain the maximum advantage and the greatest amount of dollars.
Henderson is, of course, among the 10 best baseball campocorts, according to the comments of the evaluators:
Top 10 shortstops
1. Bobby Witt Jr., Kansas City Royals
Shohei Ohtani made history as a full -time batter last year, and Aaron Judge had one of the best regular seasonal performances we have ever seen. If it were not for those two transcendental actions, Witt would have received more praise (anyway, he finished second in the race for the most valuable player in the American league behind Judge).
He is a really good defender (only Dansby Swanson generated more outs above the average last season), as long as he stayed in the most challenging position of sport. And look what Witt did on the offensive in 2024: he led the largest on average batting (.332), Hits (211), while scored 125 races, boosted 109 and stole 31 bases. His OPS+ adjusted 171 was the third highest for any campocort since 1920:
1. Arky Vaughn, 1935: 190
2. Corey Seager, 2023: 174
3. Witt, 2024: 171
The fact that the Royals signed an 11 -year contract with Witt last February will be very beneficial for this franchise.
2. Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers
This time, Betts had the benefit of knowing throughout the low season that was going to be the team campocort, unlike last year, when the Dodgers changed him from second base to Campocorto during spring training. And regardless of where I play, Betts always bats: it has an OPS+ Fitted race of 138, and could reach the 300 homers and the 200 basis stolen this season.
3. Gunnar Henderson, Baltimore Orioles
In his second campaign in 2024, Henderson hit 75 extrabases, including 37 home runs, and an OPS+ adjusted 159. AM850 researcher Paul Hembekides sent this about the beginning of Henderson’s career, comparing it to that of the Campocorto Member of the Hall of the Fame and legend of Baltimore Cal Ripken Jr.:
4. Corey Seager, Texas Rangers
He has suffered many injuries in his career and, nevertheless, Seager has four seasons with a WAR of at least 5.0. His last home run last season was the number 200 of his career.
5. Francisco Lindor, New York Mets
It makes sense that Lindor remains in the first position of the alignment of the Mets, where he shone last year. In 109 games as the first bat, he had an offensive line of .303/.374/.552, and if Soto is placed just behind him, Lindor has the experience and insight to take advantage of that. Lindor could reach 1,000 scored in his career this season, and with eight more hits, he will have 1,500. His march towards Cooperstown continues.
6. Elly de la Cruz, Cincinnati Reds
He will need more discipline on the dish if he wants to make his ambition to become the best baseball player (he has an OBP of .324 in his first two seasons and accumulated 218 strikeouts in 2024). But go, there is much to build with De la Cruz, who apparently has the opportunity to become the first player from Vince Coleman to steal 100 bases; Last year, he stole 67 while compiling 71 extrabases.
7. Trea Turner, Philadelphia Phillies
Turner will probably exceed 1,500 hits in his career at the end of the 2025 season, and has the possibility of reaching 200 homers and 300 robberies. Do not let him face a opening pitcher for the third time in a game: in those situations, he hit .367 with an OPS of 1,045.
8. Willy Adames, San Francisco Giants
The giants tried to get Adames from the board as quickly as the past fall, partly because they worried that the losers of the Soto auction (the Yankees, among other teams) could resort to Adames as Plan B. The Oracle Park of San Francisco can be a challenge for some batters, but Adames has gone well in the local park of the giants in a small sample: he has hit .321 in 16 games.
9. Carlos Correa, Minnesota Twins
Correa has played more than 136 games in just two of its 10 seasons. However, when he plays, he is a baseball player who makes a difference. His OPS+ adjusted 152 last year, despite playing just in 86 games due to injuries, he was the second best of his career.
10. Dansby Swanson, Chicago Cubs
It is still the metronome of the Campocortos, leading all the players in their position last season in Outs above the average with 18. He was also sixth in War among all the campocorts in 2024.
Outstanding mentions
Ezequiel Tovar, Colorado Rockies: As Tovar continues to develop, it probably makes its way to the top 10 in the future. He glued 26 home runs last season.
MASYN WINN, St. Louis Cardinals: It ended tenth at War among the Campocortos last year.
Zach Neto, Los Angeles Angels: There have not been many things that have gone well for Los Angels in recent seasons, but Net has the opportunity to break through and be special.
Jeremy Peña, Houston Astros: Beat with power and run a little. How much more progress can be dependent on whether it can develop more patience.
