Los Angeles Dodgers utility man Chris Taylor was ranked the fifth-best second baseman in all of baseball for the 2019 season by MLB Network’s The Shredder. The selection marks Taylor’s first as a second baseman, although he was ranked as a top-10 center fielder a year ago.
Taylor only played nine games at second base during the regular season in 2018, spending most of his time at shortstop (80 games), center field (40 games) and left field (23 games). But he’s accumulated an 8.9 WAR at second base since the start of the 2017, which trails only Jose Altuve (13.