| CATCHERS | 1ST BASEMEN | 2ND BASEMEN | SHORTSTOPS | 3RD BASEMEN | OUTFIELDERS | STARTERS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ain't draftin'. | The babysitter’s sweet, sweet can. | They lack excitement, until you’re winning your league. | Luckily, it’s not last year. | The babysitter’s sweet, sweet can. | The babysitter’s sweet, sweet can. | They’re great, I won’t own them, let’s Patty Cake while others are drafting them. |
| Ain't even got time for the g, G | Miguel Cabrera | Robinson Cano | Hanley Ramirez | Miguel Cabrera | Mike Trout | Clayton Kershaw |
| Wilin Rosario | Paul Goldschmidt | Andrew McCutchen | Yu Darvish | |||
| Buster Posey | I trust you to make the right decision, I don’t trust these guys. | Shortstops don’t look bad at all. | UGH. | Felix Hernandez | ||
| Carlos Santana | They lack excitement, until you’re winning your league. | Jason Kipnis | Troy Tulowitzki | Evan Longoria | They lack excitement, until you’re winning your league. | Max Scherzer |
| Brian McCann | Prince Fielder | Dustin Pedroia | Jean Segura | Adam Jones | Stephen Strasburg | |
| Matt Wieters | Ian Kinsler | Ian Desmond | Luckily, it’s not last year. | Adam Wainwright | ||
| Yadier Molina | UGH | Well, I guess I have to at least consider drafting a 2nd baseman. | Elvis Andrus | Hanley Ramirez | UGH. | Madison Bumgarner |
| Chris Davis | Jose Altuve | Carlos Gonzalez | ||||
| I'm your huckleberry. | Jedd Gyorko | I’d draft from this tier, but I’d prefer to have a shortstop already or wait until later. | If you would’ve told me three years ago that these guys felt safe in the 2nd round, I would’ve told you that you skipped your crazy meds. | Bryce Harper | Semantics. | |
| Salvador Perez | Luckily, it’s not last year. | Ben Zobrist | Jose Reyes | Adrian Beltre | Cliff Lee | |
| Jonathon Lucroy | Albert Pujols | Aaron Hill | Ben Zobrist | Edwin Encarnacion | Luckily, it’s not last year. | Justin Verlander |
| Jason Castro | Joey Votto | Brandon Phillips | Everth Cabrera | Jose Bautista | ||
| Wilson Ramos | Andrelton Simmons | 3rd base is deep, chill. | Ryan Braun | I could see drafting one of these guys if they’re there (stutterer!). | ||
| Evan Gattis | If you would’ve told me three years ago that these guys felt safe in the 2nd round, I would’ve told you that you skipped your crazy meds. | Trying to avoid this tier. | David Wright | Take a chance on Puig and Bruce. | Jose Fernandez | |
| Edwin Encarnacion | Matt Carpenter | The FUPA. | Ryan Zimmerman | Yasiel Puig | Chris Sale | |
| You know what you're getting, | Chase Utley | Starlin Castro | Josh Donaldson | Jay Bruce | Anibal Sanchez | |
| but why are you getting it? | On the precipice, whatever the hell a precipice is. | Howie Kendrick | Brad Miller | Pedro Alvarez | Don’t ruin your draft. | Alex Cobb |
| Joe Mauer | Freddie Freeman | Jurickson Profar | Giancarlo Stanton | Hisashi Iwakuma | ||
| A.J. Pierzynski | Hosmer | Gimme! | Jimmy Rollins | A 3rd baseman you draft now, young prematurely balding Padawan. | Justin Upton | Homer Bailey |
| Miguel Montero | Anthony Rizzo | Brad Miller | Alcides Escobar | Kyle Seager | Alex Rios | Julio Teheran |
| Jarrod Saltalamacchia | Jurickson Profar | Asdrubal Cabrera | Jedd Gyorko | Jacoby Ellsbury | ||
| Can talk myself into or out of just about any of these guys. | Nolan Arenado | Shin-Soo Choo | Loved them last year, not so much this year. | |||
| Your last chance for anything in 1 catcher leagues. | Adrian Gonzalez | No gimme! | Stupid others! | Cody Asche | Wil Myers | David Price |
| Travis d'Arnaud | Mark Trumbo | Jed Lowrie | JJ Hardy | Will Middlebrooks | Starling Marte | Zack Greinke |
| Mike Zunino | Jose Abreu | Martin Prado | Alexei Ramirez | Todd Frazier | Alex Gordon | Matt Moore |
| Devin Mesoraco | Erick Aybar | Mike Moustakas | Carlos Gomez | |||
| Do they have 1st base eligibility? I have no idea. | What are you waiting for? A personal invitation? Draft a middle infielder already. | Jed Lowrie | I’ll let you be my first fantasy starter if I don’t have one yet. | |||
| Your last chance for anything in 2 catcher leagues. | David Ortiz | Anthony Rendon | Jhonny Peralta | Hopefully these guys are ranked low enough so I don’t need to contemplate them. | They’re older and getting older. Weird how that works. | Gio Gonzalez |
| Alex Avila | Billy Butler | Alexander Guerrero | Derek Jeter | Manny Machado | Hunter Pence | Francisco Liriano |
| Yan Gomes | Kelly Johnson | Matt Carpenter | Carlos Beltran | Mike Minor | ||
| J.P. Arencibia | Not totally excited to draft them, but I guess, well, um, yeah, I will if they’re around. Excitement! | Scooter Gennett | Damn, the shortstops are deep. | Matt Holliday | Mat Latos | |
| Welington Castillo | Michael Cuddyer | Kolten Wong | Xander Bogaerts | May even get value this late…Dayum!” | Jayson Werth | Jordan Zimmermann |
| Tyler Flowers | Allen Craig | Josh Rutledge | Jonathon Villar | Pablo Sandoval | Josh Hamilton | |
| Mike Napoli | Zack Cozart | Brett Lawrie | Chaz Bono | |||
| You kiss your mother with that catcher drafting? | Brandon Moss | Only excuse to draft these guys is if you’re accidentally on autodraft and in the bathroom. | Didi Gregorious | Chase Headley | Hi, Risk, say hello to your mother for me. | Matt Cain |
| Russell Martin | Corey Hart | Daniel Murphy | Jordy Mercer | Aramis Ramirez | Billy Hamilton | James Shields |
| Carlos Ruiz | Dan Uggla | Eduardo Nunez | Jurickson Profar | Matt Kemp | Doug Fister | |
| Chris Iannetta | Why are these guys not playing catcher for you? | Brian Dozier | Josh Rutledge | Jason Heyward | Justin Masterson | |
| Kurt Suzuki | Buster Posey | Neil Walker | Julio Iglesias | Martenth Avenue Freese Out. | Yoenis Cespedes | |
| John Jaso | Carlos Santana | Rickie Weeks | Martin Prado | Who’s going to be 2014′s Matt Harvey? | ||
| Marco Scutaro | Barf. | David Freese | They have outfield eligibility. Whoopie, play them at their other position. | Gerrit Cole | ||
| Please, deity of choice, can I have some upside? | Gordon Beckham | Dee Gordon | Mark Trumbo | Sonny Gray | ||
| Matt Adams | Omar Infante | Brian Dozier | Probably won’t be thrilled with them at 3rd base, but as a corner man they might tickle your fantasy bone. | Michael Cuddyer | Masahiro Tanaka | |
| Brandon Belt | Nick Franklin | Anthony Rendon | Allen Craig | Michael Wacha | ||
| Gnihton. | Stephen Drew | Matt Dominguez | Ben Zobrist | Danny Salazar | ||
| That sunset ride. | DJ LeMahieu | Yunel Escobar | Kelly Johnson | Brandon Moss | Tony Cingrani | |
| Ryan Howard | Emilio Bonifacio | Brandon Crawford | Juan Francisco | Corey Hart | ||
| Kendrys Morales | Dustin Ackley | Adeiny Hechavarria | Chris Johnson | Got 99 problems, pitchers don’t got to be one. | ||
| Mark Teixeira | Nick Franklin | Rafael Furcal | Matt Davidson | Different degrees of mostly speed and some power. | Cole Hamels | |
| Justin Morneau | Stephen Lombardozzi | Danny Espinosa | Trevor Plouffe | Coco Crisp | Jered Weaver | |
| Nick Swisher | Jemile Weeks | Desmond Jennings | Shelby Miller | |||
| Adam Lind | If you’re drafting now for five years ago, you could do all right. | Alejandro De Aza | Jon Lester | |||
| Adam LaRoche | Mark Reynolds | Shane Victorino | ||||
| Victor Martinez | Casey McGehee | Peter Bourjos | Taking a number three doesn’t mean a pee and poop combo. | |||
| Juan Uribe | Norichika Aoki | Patrick Corbin | ||||
| If these guys are in your 1st base slot, you’re losing your league. | Rick Porcello | |||||
| Jonathon Lucroy | Brace yourself for disappointment. | Kris Medlen | ||||
| Joe Mauer | Alfonso Soriano | Andrew Cashner | ||||
| Domonic Brown | Chris Tillman | |||||
| All or nothing, or maybe that’s nothing at all. Damn, now I’m singing Air Supply. | Curtis Granderson | Chris Archer | ||||
| Chris Carter | Dexter Fowler | Hyun-Jin Ryu | ||||
| Juan Francisco | Austin Jackson | Hiroki Kuroda | ||||
| Chris Johnson | Torii Hunter | Josh Johnson | ||||
| Daniel Nava | Nelson Cruz | A.J. Griffin | ||||
| Mike Olt | Max Venable | |||||
| Chris McGuiness | Thang ain't got no I and these pitchers are nothing to me. | |||||
| I’m uncomfortably excited about these guys. | CC Sabathia | |||||
| Maybe you shouldn’t draft your team right after coming out of a coma. | Avisail Garcia | Johnny Cueto | ||||
| James Loney | Leonys Martin | Tim Lincecum | ||||
| Adam Dunn | Michael Brantley | R.A. Dickey | ||||
| Mark Reynolds | Brett Gardner | Lance Lynn | ||||
| Carl Crawford | C.J. Wilson | |||||
| Don’t worry, fantasy football is only four months away. | B.J. Upton | Jake Peavy | ||||
| Mitch Moreland | Kole Calhoun | |||||
| Lucas Duda | Kris Davis | Thisclose. | ||||
| Ike Davis | Christian Yelich | Zack Wheeler | ||||
| Yonder Alonso | Adam Eaton | Clay Buchholz | ||||
| Brett Wallace | Lorenzo Cain | A.J. Burnett | ||||
| Corey Kluber | ||||||
| If drafting any of these guys gives you an erection for longer than four hours, seek medical attention. | Ubaldo Jimenez | |||||
| Marlon Byrd | Taijuan Walker | |||||
| Martin Prado | Drew Smyly | |||||
| Nick Swisher | Randall Delgado | |||||
| Josh Willingham | ||||||
| Come here, Dumpling Face. | ||||||
| SAGNOF! | Martin Perez | |||||
| Michael Bourn | Jeff Samardzija | |||||
| Rajai Davis | Brandon Beachy | |||||
| Ben Revere | Dillon Gee | |||||
| Denard Span | Wily Peralta | |||||
| Eric Young | Hector Santiago | |||||
| Erasmo Ramirez | ||||||
| Some slight upside from my projections, some big downside too. | Tyler Skaggs | |||||
| Chris Carter | Kevin Gausman | |||||
| Colby Ramus | ||||||
| Daniel Nava | At best meh, at worst I hate their guts. | |||||
| Michael Morse | Dan Haren | |||||
| Evan Gattis | Jon Niese | |||||
| Kelly Johnson | Yovani Gallardo | |||||
| Raul Ibanez | Matt Garza | |||||
| Ricky Nolasco | ||||||
| Grey’s upsides yo’ head. | Scott Kazmir | |||||
| Oswaldo Arcia | Bartolo Colon | |||||
| Marcel Ozuna | Ervin Santana | |||||
| George Springer | Tommy Milone | |||||
| Alex Presley | Jarrod Parker | |||||
| Oscar Taveras | Jose Quintana | |||||
| Nick Castellanos | ||||||
| Josh Reddick | Lottery tickets. | |||||
| Junior Lake | Alexi Ogando | |||||
| Jackie Bradley | Yordano Ventura | |||||
| Michael Saunders | Michael Pineda | |||||
| Nate Eovaldi | ||||||
| Splitsville. | Alex Wood | |||||
| Nate Schierholtz | Marco Estrada | |||||
| Drew Stubbs | Dan Straily | |||||
| Krispie Young | Alex Torres | |||||
| Emilio Bonifacio | Carlos Martinez | |||||
| Corey Dickerson | Derek Holland | |||||
| Jarrod Dyson | Brandon Morrow | |||||
| Ichiro Suzuki | Kyle Drabek | |||||
| Andre Ethier | James Taillon | |||||
| Dustin Ackley | Archie Bradley | |||||
| Andrew Lambo | ||||||
| Throw it on auto-draft and go have sex with your loved one. It doesn’t matter. | ||||||
| Nick Markakis | Zach McAllister | |||||
| Angel Pagan | Jhoulys Chacin | |||||
| Carlos Quentin | Trevor Cahill | |||||
| Ryan Ludwick | Wei-Yin Chen | |||||
| Cody Ross | Charlie Morton | |||||
| David DeJesus | Jaime Garcia | |||||
| Logan Morrison | Danny Duffy | |||||
| Nolan Reimold | Carlos Carrasco | |||||
| Robbie Grossman | Tyler Thornburg | |||||
| L.J. Hoes | Jarred Cosart | |||||
| Melky Cabrera | Jeremy Hellickson | |||||
| Jenrry Mejia | ||||||
| Phil Hughes | ||||||
| Edinson Volquez | ||||||
| Josh Beckett |
2014 Fantasy Baseball Tiers
Updated: 2025-05-13 01:45:20 PM EST
