It’s the halfway point of the season, so how about we name our first half Outfield All-Stars! Here are the top 10 Outfielders in Earned Auction Values based on the Razzball Player Rater for 15 team mixed leagues
Yordan Alvarez $36.8
James Wood $36
Pete Crow-Armstrong $32.2
Jordan Walker $31.4
Byron Buxton $30.3
Oneil Cruz $26.3
Andy Pages $26
Bryan Reynolds $23.3
Brandon Marsh $23.2
Randy Arozarena $21
The Stars
Yordan dropped a shade in drafts this year thanks to only getting 199 PA’s in 2025, and they weren’t particularly great ones by his standards. Just 6 homers and a career low .338 wOBA. Oh, and he was not OF eligible in formats that required 20 appearances. Well, he now qualifies, and he’s putting up near AL triple crown numbers at .311 (2nd), 25 homers (1st), and 56 RBI’s (66th). And he’s been just consistently great with a monthly wRC+ of 221 in March/April, 139 in May, and 176 in June. The only thing you don’t get is speed, but he’s just an amazingly consistent mix of power and plate skills as he has a 15.6% BB% vs. a 17.2% K%. If you roster him, just cross your fingers he stays on the field.
Wood’s season-long numbers remain fantastic: 20 homers, 13 steals, 72 runs (best in MLB by 13) and 49 RBI’s. Even his .258 average helps in 15-teamers. But his recent trends are a bit worrisome and a bad flashback to his awful 2nd half of 2025. His last homer was June 15th, and since then he’s slashing .135/.217/.212 with no steals either and a 38.3% K%. Crossing my fingers it’s a small sample size blip and not a rerun.
PCA slumped big time in the back end of 2025 as well, but he’s back in superstar form with 17 homers, 20 steals, a .276 average, and 96 Runs+RBI’s. Encouragingly, he’s just getting better as the weather warms up at Wrigley.
Buxton is like Yordan in that if he’s healthy he’s raking. And knock on wood, at 329 PA’s he’s on pace to pass his career high of 542 PA’s from last year. He’s already hit 25 homers to go with 56 runs, 43 RBIs, and a .268 average. The only really modest disappointment is he’s not running as much as he has just 7 steals after swiping 25 bags in 2025. Hey, we’ll take it! If you roster Buxton, you just want him to stay upright, and besides, a 40 homer year with 10-15 steals is fantastic.
Arozarena’s power is down as he has just 8 homers after hitting between 20 and 27 each of the last 5 years. And his 36 RBI’s are not great either, and in Seattle’s meh lineup that might not trend better. But he’s more than making up for it with a .283 Avg that would be a career high and 19 steals. He’s slowed down his bat speed a bit from 72.3 to 70.9, and as you would expect, it’s improved his Contact% to a career high 74.8%, and his K% is down to 22.3%. It all looks like a willful remake of his profile as he’s just a better hitter overall.
Draft Day Middle Class
Oneil Cruz last played on June 7th and isn’t expected back until after the All-Star break. But at 14 homers, 21 steals, 45 runs, and 41 RBIs, he booked enough already to still make this list. He’s even batting .268 after last year’s .200 disaster. But there are the usual red flags with him. His K% is 34.6%, actually up from 2025, and his 37.2% Whiff% is 2nd percentile. Of course, when he makes contact, it is louder than loud still, with a 16.7% Barrel% and 111.7 EV90 that’s tops in MLB among qualified hitters. The point is he’s basically the same guy as always; power-speed with huge batting average risk. It’s hard to tell if his improvements vs. lefties are real, but he’s hitting .312 against them in 83 PA’s this year, so that’s perhaps the best sign he’s showing.
Pages is having a solid year across the board with 15 homers, 50 runs, 58 RBIs (3rd in MLB), 8 steals, and a .268. He now regularly bats 2nd in the Dodgers lineup, which is kind of like getting that 1990’s NBC MustSee TV timeslot between Seinfeld and Friends. But unfortunately for the Dodgers, he’s hit the skids a bit, as in the last month he’s slashing just .202 /.285/.333 with 2 homers and 1 steal in 130 PA’s. We’ve seen this before with him, namely in the 2025 playoffs when he batted himself off the field in the World Series. He may move down in the order, but the Dodgers won’t bench him for long and take his glove out of center. Just ride this out.
Reynolds I mentioned last week, so not going to rehash. I’ll just shout out his boring consistency.
The One’s We All Missed
With Walker, we know what happened here….He Went To Driveline! Ok, that’s a meme-ish thing, but he really did go to Driveline last winter, and he’s turned himself into the superstar everyone projected to the tune of .290, 18 homers, 10 steals, 47 runs, and 58 RBIs. His bat speed is 2nd highest in the league at 79. And it’s getting the desired results with a 111 EV90 that’s second to just Cruz, with a 13.7% Barrel%. He’s doing that while decreasing his K% to 25.7%, which is absolutely playable with this kind of pop. Also, he’s still just 24 years old. There’s no reason not to buy into this.
Marsh, I have to confess I pretty much ignored him during draft season. And since I don’t have him, I didn’t realize quite how well he has played. He’s batting .321, way higher than the career best .280 he put up in 2025. The rest of his numbers are more solid than eye-popping: 12 homers, 8 steals, 46 runs and 42 RBIs. That’s nice 5-category production for a guy that now plays every day and bats in the middle of an excellent lineup.
I’m not at all sold it continues, at least at this pace. His 4.5% BB% vs. 25.1% K% is kind of meh to bad for a non-power hitter, and his 89.9 EV is actually down for him as he’s been over 91 the past three seasons. His K% is way down from the low 30’s levels he typically ran earlier in his career, but it all kind of screams a bit of regression. He’s fast, so he should run a high BABIP, but his .401 BABIP would mark a career high, and his .280 xBA is probably a better measure of his skills. I don’t want to completely rain on what he’s doing, a 20-15 year with a plus average from his low draft slot really plays. It’s just top 10 level.
