Shuffle Up: Splitting hairs with Ian Kinsler

This week's Shuffle Up assignment is the middle infield, everyone who qualifies at second base or shortstop in the standard Yahoo! game. If you're on the DL (sorry Tulo), you don't get a rank. If you're in the minors (no one misses you, Raburn), you don't get a rank. Those are the rules.

I'll let the ranks simmer and settle for a bit, then come back and add comments, tweak a few things. Assume a 5x5 roto context , as always, and what's happened to this point is merely an audition. The goal is to figure out who's most valuable going forward.

Don't sweat the actual dollar values; what matters is how the players relate to one another. And when players share the same price tag, they're considered