The Itch

Prospect News: Rangers Score Gore or New York Ready, Freddy?

January 25, 2026 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 2 Comments

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We’ll get back to rolling out the Top 100 next time, but the news cycle demands that we make space to discuss two major trades in the prospect world.

If you happen to be a Brewers fan, I don’t really know what to say that might make you feel better about trading Freddy Peralta and Tobias Myers for RHP Brandon Sproat and SS Jett Williams. Perhaps you’ve internalized the message that your team is so poor that it can’t afford the final season of a good player’s contract or so poor at finding prospects that they have to make these kinds of trades to keep the system stocked. Perhaps you’re totally in step with this transaction. 

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ADHamley

Zen And The Art Of Fantasy Baseball: Anguish

January 24, 2026 | 2026 Fantasy Baseball | 4 Comments

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This game is an exercise in self-inflicted suffering. We make choices for our drafts or lineups, and when those choices don’t work, we suffer (maybe not relative to real life challenges, but still…). But baseball is stupid hard to predict, so we must come to terms with the fact that many of our choices in this game will be flat-out wrong. The job is to make more right ones than wrong ones. And sometimes that means going back and making the same decisions we made last year, this time with hope of a different outcome.

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keelinbillue

Ambulance Chasers: Injury Risk Reality Check For Draft Season

January 23, 2026 | 2026 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Injury Report | 10 Comments

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Howdy Razzball Family! Long time, no see. Hope you had great holidays and are enjoying the calm before the preseason baseball storm. Unfortunately, I’ve been summoned to talk about something less relaxing. Preseason baseball time also means that it is preseason injury time, which, as we all know, means in-season injury time isn’t far behind. […]

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Laura Holt

Rolling In The Deep: Hitters I’ve Drafted Outside The Top 300

January 23, 2026 | 2026 Fantasy Baseball, Rolling In The Deep | 13 Comments

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Happy 2026, Razzball friends and family! That thing happened again, where the weeks and months kept going by, and finally it was time to write about baseball, so here we are. Yay! As I’ve done the last few years, we’ll kick off the preseason here at RITD with some early thoughts about the draft landscape, […]

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Grey

Top 20 2nd Basemen for 2026 Fantasy Baseball

January 22, 2026 | Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Featured | 69 Comments

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One super quick word about the top 20 2nd basemen for 2026 fantasy baseball and all the 2026 fantasy baseball rankings, each ranking appears insanely long and it is, but I imagine in a lot of leagues guys won’t have eligibility, because I’m using the extremely lax Yahoo position eligibility (five games started). Without further […]

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Jakkers

2026 Dynasty Rankings: 175-151

January 22, 2026 | 2026 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Keeper Leagues | 4 Comments

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Welcome back to the 2026 Dynasty Rankings as I count down to the top players in my rankings.

Before we get to the top player, however, the tour continues through the rest of the rankings and today that tour covers players ranked from 175 to 151.

Here is a quick breakdown of the positions and ages of the players:

SP: 3
1B: 4 | 3B: 2 | SS: 1 | IF: 5
CF: 1 | LF: 1 | OF: 4
IF/OF: 3
DH: 1
Ages 20-24: 6
Ages 25-29: 14
Ages 30-34: 4
Ages 35+: 1

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Mike Couillard

Cards & Categories Ep. 123: NL East Preview With Chris Towers

January 22, 2026 | 2026 Fantasy Baseball, All Podcasts, Cards and Categories | 2 Comments

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In our 123rd episode, Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer discuss the boiling-over hot stove of MLB transactions and latest baseball card news before previewing the NL East with Chris Towers of CBS Sports and the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast. You can find us on bluesky at @cardscategories.bsky.social, @mcouill7.bsky.social, and @jbrewer17.bsky.social. Email the pod at [email protected]. Links to things discussed in the […]

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B_Don

Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Grey’s Catcher Rankings for 2026

January 22, 2026 | All Podcasts, Podcast, Razzball Podcast |

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Is catcher the tight end of fantasy baseball? Or is it more like drafting kickers? On this episode of the Razzball Fantasy Baseball Podcast, Grey and B_Don dive headfirst into the most misunderstood, least glamorous, and somehow still pivotal (?) position in the game: catcher. We break down how to approach catcher in 1-C versus […]

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Grey

Top 20 1st Basemen for 2026 Fantasy Baseball

January 21, 2026 | Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Featured | 80 Comments

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Are the top 20 1st basemen for 2026 fantasy baseball good? How do you define good? Is good definable? Are you Plato? What is a Plato? Any hoo! This post goes on for about 1.8 million words, so let’s dive in. Here’s Steamer’s 2026 Fantasy Baseball Projections for Hitters and 2026 Fantasy Baseball Projections for Pitchers. The […]

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The Itch

Prospect News: Top 25 For 2026 Dynasty Fantasy Baseball

January 21, 2026 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 24 Comments

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1. Brewers SS Jesus Made | 18 | AA | 2026

A 6’1” 187 pound switch-hitter with power and plate skills beyond his years, Made is the top prospect for our game in my opinion and a consensus top-five prospect for any purpose no matter who’s sorting the list. In 115 across three levels, Made slashed .285/.379/.413 with six home runs and 47 stolen bases. He was 2.4 years young for the level in Low-A, 4.2 years young for the level in High-A, and 5.7 years younger than the average age at the level during his five-game debut with Double-A Biloxi to close out the season. He was slow to get settled into full-season pro ball after skipping the complex league but was dominant in High-A, slashing .343/.415/.500 in 27 games, and I suspect we’ll see a lot of that moving forward.

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Grey

Top 20 Catchers for 2026 Fantasy Baseball

January 20, 2026 | Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Featured | 73 Comments

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After we went over the top 10 for 2026 fantasy baseball and the top 20 for 2026 fantasy baseball in our (my) 2026 fantasy baseball rankings, it’s time for the meat and potatoes rankings. Something to stew about! Hop in the pressure cooker, crank it up to “Intense” and let’s rock with the top 20 catchers for 2026 fantasy baseball. […]

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