Shortstop
Fourteen shortstops qualified for consideration, but the talent disparity was substantial. A solid upper class emerged with four shortstops amassing WARs exceeding 4.0 in both seasons.
Cumulatively, the WAR leader was well-traveled free agent Carlos Correa. He accumulated 7.2 WAR for the 2021 Astros, then added 5.4 WAR for the 2022 Twins, giving him a total of 12.6. Trea Turner was a close second with 6.5 for the 2021 Nats and Dodgers plus 4.9 in 2022, a total of 11.4 Xander Bogaerts and Bo Bichette were third and fourth respectively.
Correa also led in OPS+ with a two-season average of 135.5. That barely beat out Turner’s average of 133, with Bogaerts and Bichette again third and fourth.
But as was the case at second base, availability turned out to be the decisive element of the equation. Bichette led in that category with 1,387 plate appearances, 95.8 percent of the theoretical max set by Semien. Turner, at 1,354 (93.5%) was second, with Dansby Swanson and J.P. Crawford in the third and fourth positions.
Bogaerts, with 1,234, ranked only sixth, and that was one spot ahead of Correa, who tied Francisco Lindor for seventh with 1,230.
The ordinal results elevated Turner into first place with runner-up standings in all three categories, creating a 2.00 average. Correa fell into a tie for second team all-availability with Bichette, both at an ordinal average of 3.00.
Bogaerts (4.00) was fourth, Swanson (5.67) fifth and Lindor (6.00) sixth.