This post picks up where we left off Sunday when I posted the Top 25 Outfield Prospects for Dynasty Fantasy Baseball in 2022. While we’re here, I might as well include a quick link to all my work this off-season: 2022 Fantasy Baseball Prospects, the Minor League Preview Index. It’s been fun to explore the game system by system then position by position. Starting pitchers are coming up next, followed by relievers in one of my favorite articles to build every year (I’ve been working on it for weeks) before we ring in the new minor league season with a fresh list of Top 100 prospects. Can’t wait! This particular list could’ve gone on forever (in the sense that “forever” refers mostly to a pretty damn long time), but I stopped at sixty to avoid overstaying my welcome (I hope). If someone you expected to see isn’t on here please drop a line in the comments section.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Gilberto Jimenez
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Boston Red Sox Top 10 Prospects for 2022 Fantasy Baseball
November 24, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 7 Commentsby: The Itch
It didn’t end the way they would’ve liked, but the Red Sox had a wonderful season, channeling some Tampa Bay ways with the help of Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom and employing smart management on the field with the help of Alex Cora. When the club signed Enrique Hernandez, few would have predicted a 4 (3.9) WAR season punctuated by a monster playoff run (.408/.423/.837 with 5 HR), but I feel pretty confident this won’t be the last time the current Boston braintrust generates All-Star outcomes from mid tier free agents. The scary part is they don’t have to. With a big payroll and stocked system, the Sox appear poised for a long contention cycle.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Top 50 Prospects for 2021 Fantasy Baseball
February 14, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Fantasy Baseball Rankings | 64 Commentsby: The Itch
I don’t have some big introductory explanation here. I trust you grasp the premise and intend to skip this paragraph, but if I still have your eyes for the moment, I’ll say I imagine a start-up build for a 15-team, 2-catcher dynasty league when parsing through the lists and try to explain when a player’s value varies based on settings. If you’re in a contention window, your rankings should look a bit different than they’d look on the front end of a rebuild. I’ll flag some players along the way for whom the disparity in value can get especially large from build to build.
In case you missed it, here’s a link to the Top 10 Prospects for 2021 Fantasy Baseball.
And here’s one for the Top 25 Prospects for 2021 Fantasy Baseball.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Top 10 Boston Red Sox Prospects for 2021 Fantasy Baseball
December 6, 2020 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 7 Commentsby: The Itch
Things tend to get weird after you win a World Series these days.
You might lose your manager due to a slow-burn scandal.
Might trade your franchise player in his prime.
For prospects, of course.
Might look kinda cryptically smart for doing so when a pandemic erases much of his final season under contract.
Oh yeah, and your big-money ace has the bad elbow but might be back in July or so. It’s a weird moment in Boston, but 2021 isn’t without hope, especially in the form of the guy who tops this list.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Top 2020 Prospects: Boston Red Sox
December 8, 2019 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 10 Commentsby: The Itch
Life is a thankless slog made occasionally bearable for humans by moments of surprising joy and glimpses of baby Yoda.
Those aren’t my words. Werner Herzog’s family and mine get together for Mandalorian Fridays, and these were Werner’s thoughts on the Dave Dombrowski firing when I told him I was writing up the Red Sox.
I’m confident Chaim Bloom will be just fine in the top job. Will he be as successful as Dombrowski? Tough to say. Pretty high bar. What we can say is Bloom will be less handsy with ownership’s purse strings, which will grant him an extra level of job security. As might his ability to thread the needle between going for the win year over year and building up and protecting the minor league system.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Top 50 Prospects for 2020 Fantasy Baseball
September 29, 2019 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 31 Commentsby: The Itch
For your viewing and thinking pleasure, I have played a game of Would You Rather using the entire prospect universe.
Or wait, am I thinking of the right game? Not that F, marry, kill game but the one where you have to decide on either/or propositions . . . there’s not sex stuff in that one, too, is there?
Sorry, I’ve been thinking about these young men a long time.
Hope you get some fun out of considering the sequence, reading some words, and playing your own (sex) games!
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