by: Grey
I wonder if Samuel Basallo and Dylan Beavers know how much is riding on their success. If they don’t succeed, it will be added to the failures of Jackson Holliday, Adley Rutschman and Coby Mayo. Plus, Kyle Stowers needing to go to another team to ignite into something, and whatever happened to Gunnar and Westburg […]
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In our 116th episode, Mike Couillard is joined by Taylor Corso and Kyle Sonntag of the Dynasty Baseball Pickups podcast to discuss the standout performances in the Arizona Fall League. 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 pod: Josh Naylor re-signs with M’s Angels […]
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by: Jakkers
Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my weekly rankings. This week is the Top 50 Dynasty Third Basemen for 2026.
As a position, this is not the strongest group of players. Third basemen in 2025 slashed .224/.305/.391 with a 93 wRC+. Only center fielders had a lower batting average and and OBP and only second basemen had a lower SLG while second basemen and center fielders had a 92 wRC+.
Here is the age breakdown of this position:
35+: 1
30-34: 15
25-29: 26
20-24: 8
There are some young up-and-coming third basemen. But this is a position where older players still are among the best players as there are four 30+ players ranked in Tier 1 before the younger players dominate Tier 2 as nine of the 10 players in that tier are under 30.
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by: The Itch
1. OF Spencer Jones | 24 | AAA | 2026
At 6’7” 240 pounds from the left side, Jones is a fantasy darling for his combination of power and speed. The 25th overall pick in the 2022 draft, he came just one steal shy of a 30/30 season in 116 games across two levels in 2025, slashing .274/.362/.571 with 35 home runs, 29 stolen bases and a 35.4 percent strikeout rate. That last piece might not matter much given how much impact Jones makes on contact, but it creates enough doubt to keep me skeptical, despite what his ranking here suggests. The upside is just too enticing and near to ignore.
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Moises Ballesteros was my uncle’s name. He only spoke Yiddish, but he had tough as leather hands. Moises, we miss you. Come back to your shtetl! [looks up] Hmm, bummer, I thought balloons would fall congratulating me as the first person who’s ever written the word “shtetl” in a post about fantasy baseball. Alas, I […]
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After the Justin Crawford fantasy outlook, I did pause — literally, I froze right where I was for five hours — and decided I need to do some sexy eh-eff prospects. Enter: Bubba Chandler. P to erhaps, the most exciting, sexy eh-eff prospect. Sure, he might win three games out of 25 games started for […]
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1. SS Franklin Arias | 20 | AA | 2027
Arias signed for $525,000 as the second highest paid player in Boston’s 2023 international class. Today, that looks like money well invested. A right-handed hitter listed at 5’11” 170 lbs, Arias wasn’t as good in 2025 as he had been the year before, but he was facing much older competition and still managed a 108 wRC+ in 87 High-A games despite slashing .265/.329/.380. The plate skills were still elite: 8.2% walk rate against an 8.9% strikeout rate, so the organization waved him along to Double-A for a ten-game stretch at season’s end. He hits the ball hard enough. Just needs to add some loft and grow into some man-strength.
by: Grey
Can I be honest with you? I can? Ooh, ain’t you a real sweet’ums! Letting little ol’ me be honest with big bad you! Who do you think you are? I can be honest with whomever I want to be! How dare you police my honesty! A real God complex on you! Okay, so, if […]
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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my weekly rankings. This week is the Top 50 Dynasty Shortstops for 2026.
When it comes to this position, it is full of young players with great upside or have already reached a high level of play while also featuring older players who can still be great players to have on your team.
Overall, if you need to boost your average or your on-base percentage, this is a group to hoard. Collectively, shortstops slashed .254/.317/.394, ranking first, second and fourth among all positions in those categories. The top end players will help you across the board. As you get beyond those players, you will still find shortstops who will help in at least one category, such has homers or steals or whatever you are looking for.
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1. C Samuel Basallo | 21 | MLB | 2025
Click here to read Grey’s 2026 Fantasy Outlook for Basallo.
In the article, Grey is frustrated by Baltimore’s service-time machinations. Those same concerns caused me to dread writing this list for a few days. I’m not sure why. I used to have little trouble cruising through even the organizations I didn’t love following, but I start feeling like a liar at some point when I’m telling you about a Rockies or Orioles prospect like he’s going to matter someday soon. Then again, they do sneak through sometimes, and Basallo could give you a Hunter Goodman sized boost in the power categories if Baltimore lets him learn on the job. He’s not going to catch everyday with Adley in town, but who knows how much longer Adley will be in town? His production and health are both in downward spirals, and Basallo slugged .589 with 23 home runs in just 76 Triple-A games in 2025. Dang. Managed 27 bombs in 107 games on the year if you combine his minor league dominance with his 31-game big league sample. He’s the rare case where I’ll look past the org setting and cross my fingers he’ll get enough playing time to impact redraft leagues.
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First, a bit of trivia, Travis Bazzana is from Australia. That’s not the trivia. Nope! It gets better! In Australia, you might be aware of this, but everything is done by boomerang. Their GrubHub, their mail, their car valets, everything. You attach a boomerang to the item and send it away from you, then eventually […]
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As mentioned in the Nolan McLean rookie outlook, he is better than Jonah Tong. Eat a D, Tong! Haha, got his ass. [intern whispers] Oh, I’m hearing Jonah Tong is good too. Well, yeah, dur! That’s why we’re here! So, Itch wrote up his top 10 Mets prospects and there he said, “Tong’s four-seam fastball […]
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