We continue our mission to determine the best season from a Ray at each position around the diamond. Already annointed: Price, Rodney, Navarro, and Peña.
Today we’ll be doing things a bit differently, however.
If we had followed the pattern we have laid out so far, there would be five candidates for the best-ever season from a Rays second baseman in this piece, then in a week or so, the same deal for third base. Here’s the thing, though: Both of those positions are dominated in Rays history by one player at each spot.
For second base season, the top five by fWAR are all Ben Zobrist seasons, and five of the top six by rWAR are Zobrist (only Logan Forsythe’s 2015 managed to break up the monotony a bit).