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Ranking the top 10 MLB first basemen for 2023

Major League Baseball is loaded with star power heading into the 2023 season. A handful of its biggest stars come from the first base position.

St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt earned National League MVP honors after a dominant 2022. Freddie Freeman finished fourth in NL MVP voting after his debut season with the Los Angeles Dodgers and won the award with the Atlanta Braves in 2020. Toronto Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was the American League MVP runner-up in 2021 and is considered by many to be one of the "faces of baseball."

Tomase: A Red Sox skeptic shares his glass-half-full scenario for 2023

The Boston Red Sox don't currently have a star playing first base, but they'll hope to see that change sometime in the near future.