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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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Graduated from Stash List #5: House Party or Moore Is Better: Roman Anthony, Christian Moore, Jacob Misiorowski

Note: Anyone promoted during the current season is ineligible for the stash list.

 

1. Reds RHP Chase Burns (22, AAA)

Made his Triple-A debut this week and walked four batters but still surrendered just two runs in 5.1 innings and struck out seven Iowa Cubs. I wouldn’t give him more than five starts at the level, and I doubt the Reds will. They paid the man $9.25 million to sign on the dotted line. No good reason to spend a pile of pitches in the minors.

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Graduated from Stash List #4: Boston Needs A New Mayer: Marcelo Mayer, Jac Caglianone, Carson McCusker, Daylen Lile 

Note: Anyone promoted during the current season is ineligible for the stash list.

1. Red Sox OF Roman Anthony (21, AAA) 

I had speculated about a Jarren Duran trade in this space before, and the team has made comments over the past week about their willingness to trade both Duran and Wilyer Abreu. Seems like Anthony might be stuck in Pawtucket until such a deal clears his path. 

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1. OF Dylan Crews | 23 | MLB | 2024

Here’s what I wrote about Crews in Prospect News: The Future Is Not A Game or Collier Daddy:

It’s hard to say somebody lost any dynasty value during a seven-inning exhibition, but Nationals OF Dylan Crews took some some strays during the broadcast, who agreed he was something of a ho-hum, 25-homer, gets-his-numbers-by-season’s-end type of compiler who doesn’t have great speed but knows how to swipe a base. That’s been pretty much my read all along, but it was kind of odd to hear it during what’s meant to be a two-hour hype fest.”

Nothing’s really changed since then. Crews made his debut. Slashed .218/.288/.353 over 31 games. He’s ranked first here because it’s unreasonable to rank him after the super young pitchers. I’m kinda out on him until/unless something changes.  

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The 2024 Futures Game rosters were made public on Tuesday, so I’d like to highlight some key takeaways that might be relevant to people with mid-week transaction set-ups. 

For dynasty purposes, the Futures Game has always been an escalator for prospect fantasy values. Most people don’t watch minor league baseball on the regular, so their first time seeing some of these prospects with their own eyes happens during this seven-inning exhibition game. 

My takeaway today is that values are going to change more than ever this season due to the new Futures Skills Showcase that will follow the game itself. 

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