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The last two weeks I have run down the Top 50 Dynasty Relivers and Top 100 Starting Pitchers for 2027 Fantasy Baseball. This week we start our trip around the infield and our first position is catcher.

Let’s be honest, this is not an overly deep position. Once you get out of the top 10, things start to drop quickly. Once you are outside the top 20, it is almost time to blindly throw darts at the pictures of catchers on the wall and selecting the player the dart landed on. Part of this is just the lack of great hitting catchers. It has always been a demanding position, so the top catchers are highly coveted and then it is just mix and match from there.

But another reason for the drop in quality as we move down the rankings is due to the fact that many team basically play two catchers, meaning you don’t get one guy that you can plug in every day and be happy. You may have a decent catcher, but he’s out there only 100 games, meaning you have to find a second catcher or have no one starting at catcher the day yours is on the bench.

So the strategy is simple when it comes to the catcher position – get the top catcher who plays nearly every day! Simple, right? I know, everyone in your league is trying to do that. But if you do have an everyday catcher who helps you in at least two categories, you are ahead of most others else in your league.

Now, let’s get on with the rankings.

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Hello everyone. Welcome back to another edition of my position-by-position dynasty rankings for 2027.

Last week I unveiled my Top 50 Dynasty Relievers for 2027 Fantasy Baseball, so this week I turn my attention to the starting pitchers.

As is often the case, as time moves on a person’s views and ways of doing things slowly change. In the past I gave more weight to older pitchers because I don’t like the many ups and downs younger pitchers have. I wanted “certainty” from my starters for the next three seasons. If I liked what I was predicting, I was taking them regardless of their age.

To be honest, this approached has served me well. While my opponents were going after the top young arms, I was able to get a Chris Sale or Zach Wheeler at a “discount” because they were so much older. But I have slowly shifted my overall outlook to go after younger starters as well. One big reason is many of the top young arms are just better at adjusting to the majors than in the past.

They are still going to hit a few bumps in the road, but not as many. So I am now willing to accept those ups and downs because their long-term upside is tremendous. Thus the below rankings now feature a lot of younger pitchers ranked higher compared to how I would have ranked them in the past.

With that out of the way, it’s time to move on to the Top 100 Dynasty Starting Pitchers for 2027 Baseball.

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I have said this before, but it probably doesn’t hurt to repeat it – in dynasty baseball, it is never too soon to start formulating your plan and compiling your lists of the top players you should target in trades or upcoming drafts or auctions in 2027. If you want to win your league title, […]

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Welcome back, everyone. The marathon that is the baseball season is finally turning into a sprint as we enter the final weekend of the regular season. With that in mind, this is the final installment of the Up-and-Coming Dynasty Player series this year. The final player to be highlighted is Max Clark of the Detroit […]

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Welcome back, everyone. The fantasy season is basically over for most leagues as the postseason has begun, and you may or may not still be playing. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still be thinking about fantasy baseball. That is because in dynasty leagues, it is always baseball season. With that in mind, which players […]

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Welcome back, my friends, to another installment of Up-and-Coming Dynasty Players.

This week I am circling back to a player I featured in April of 2025 in Hayden Wesneski. Acquired during the offseason ahead of the 2025 season, the Astros hoped to have the right-handed pitcher be a key member of the starting rotation.

Those plans were dashed, however, after six starts when Wesneski went down with a right elbow injury that lead to Tommy John surgery. Since returning to the rotation, Wesneski has become a key member of the starting rotation. While he is 28 years old, you can never have enough pitching and he is just now in his prime.

So let’s take a look at Wesneski.

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Hello everyone, welcome back to another Up-and-Coming Dynasty Player entry.

With teams falling out of the playoff race, they are turning their gaze to 2027 and calling up some of their top prospects. One of the teams looking to next season is the Minnesota Twins, who recalled one of their top prospects in Kaelen Culpepper.

Culpepper entered the season as the 74th ranked prospect by Baseball America, 52nd by MLB and 71st by Baseball Prospectus. He did not disappoint in the minors this season at Triple-A St. Paul. In 74 games played, he scored 63 runs with 14 homers, 46 RBI and 17 steals with a .271/.367/.478 slash line.

Let’s dive in and take a look at Culpepper.

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Welcome back, my friends, to another installment of Up-and-Coming Dynasty Players.

In my continued search to find young pitching, I head west to California and highlight pitcher Walbert Urena of the Los Angeles Angels. Urena is only 22 years old and has emerged as a quality starter for the Angels.

Urena has snuck up on people this year as minor league numbers were nothing to write home about. But with pitching always in demand, Urena is an up-and-coming dynasty pitcher.

So let’s take a look at Urena.

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Every dynasty league has it’s own rules and roster system, so many of the top prospects in baseball are already snatched and rostered when they reach the majors. But that doesn’t take the fun out of seeing some of the top young players in the game make it to The Show, because for dynasty players, it means a past investment in a player could finally be paying off.

One of those top young players we have all been following is Joshua Baez of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Perhaps no prospect has raised their stock more than Baez this season. An athletic player who has shown great power potential, Baez put everything together this season and forced the Cardinals to promote him last week and insert him into the lineup.

Let’s take a look at Baez and why he is an up-and-coming dynasty player.

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Earlier this week one of the top young prospects was recalled by the New York Yankees to take over the shortstop position. That young up-and-coming dynasty player is George Lombard Jr.

Lombard entered the 2026 season as the 46th best prospect by Baseball America while MLB ranked him at 32nd and Baseball Prospectus pegged him as the 42nd best prospect. Not bad for a 21-year-old who was drafted with the 26th overall pick in 2023.

Barely three years later Lombard finds himself in the majors. The rapid rise from high school to the majors shouldn’t be a huge surprise as his father played saw time in the majors from 1998-2006.

Let’s take a look at George Lombard Jr.

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