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.
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Tampa Bay Rays Top 10 Prospects for 2022 Fantasy Baseball
December 5, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 22 Commentsby: The Itch
Witchcraft. That’s the plainest explanation. We need to get some ducks and a big old scale and sort this out once and for all.
It’s no exaggeration to say the Rays have changed baseball. Has there ever been a more successful stretch by a team who didn’t win a single World Series? Perhaps, but probably not if you’re giving them bonus points for thrift, which I think we should probably stop doing at some point. We’re just really into discounts, is all, so when we see a team win as something of a walking clearance rack, we like that. It’s hard-wired. The success here is built from the ground up–a long-term developmental outlook that perennially puts Tampa in the top tier of minor league systems.
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The Prospect Trench: No Man’s Land
February 15, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 3 Commentsby: Skorish
You click the button.
Bingo
You’ve made your pick. You feel energized, confident. You look over. Your queue is proud and strong.
I’ve got this.
Nothing can tear you down. You’ve done your research, crossed your Ts, and dotted your I’s.
Until… The next pick. One player taken from your queue is no big deal, right? You’ve still got… Ding. Ding. Ding. And just like that, your best-laid plans have vanished.
My good do these scrubs read Razzball, too?
You panic as you search the top available picks left. All your targeted prospects, all your value veterans, all hope… Gone in a flash. Even Hedbert!
Please, blog, may I have some more? Top 10 Tampa Bay Rays Prospects for 2021 Fantasy Baseball
December 13, 2020 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 7 Commentsby: The Itch
Yesterday, at my daughter’s suggestion, we drew our butts, my daughter and me, by which I mean we outlined our forms in chalk as we sat–kind of like making a hand turkey during Thanksgiving week at preschool.
It’s raining today as I write this, so our butts will soon be gone. Washed away forever.
Good thing I took some photos.
That alone makes our day drawing butts more productive than a whole week of MLB’s winter meetings, where Lowe was the high point. Very 2020.
Let’s do the prospect thing.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Prospect News: Captain Kirk Beamed Up to Buffalo
September 16, 2020 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 20 Commentsby: The Itch
I’m not the world’s biggest Star Trek fan, but I thought the JJ Abrams reboot with Zoe Saldana was good, and I know a solid nickname when I see one. If you show me a catcher named Kirk, I can’t avoid calling him Captain. I don’t have the power. Chris Pine is kind of underrated as an actor, I think, and this next guy is likely a little underrated as a prospect.
Please, blog, may I have some more?So here we are somewhere in Snape’s cauldron among our top hundred divining the future of the outfield position in fantasy baseball.
Wild things have happened already. I knew it might get weird when I saw the ghost of Shoeless Joe while I was watching Parasite.
Sorry, Sev: while we were watching Parasite.
The other day, I got asked about Luis Matos and wound up mentioning Ronald Acuna Jr.
Then dug deeper down into that rabbit hole and ate the mushrooms that made the idea grow.
That was after people got mad at me for some inadvertent Trout shade. I blame Christian Yelich for being better than him at roto.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Dynasty Catcher Rankings for 2021 Fantasy Baseball
March 25, 2020 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 18 Commentsby: The Itch
Last week, I jumped forward in time to discuss next year’s top 100 prospects.
Today, we’ll stay on that future theme but begin a position-by-position focus, starting with everyone’s favorite spot: catcher.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Top 2020 Prospects: Texas Rangers
January 29, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 18 Commentsby: The Itch
Time for the last dance.
Find your partner.
Sway with the Clapton.
You feeling wonderful tonight?
Then lean in. Hold close as we fade toward our disparate futures.
Sorry, I’m sentimental about endings, and I’m finally finishing this project. The Rangers find themselves last on the 30-team fantasy prospect rundown, and as fate would have it, Texas has a big old Longhorn of a system, though perhaps one without a lone star.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Top 150 Prospects for 2020 Fantasy Baseball
October 13, 2019 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 26 Commentsby: The Itch
If you’re a fan of a baseball team, chances are good at least one of your team’s coaches got fired this week. Maybe even the manager. Eleven Major League clubs don’t have one today.
And if you’re a fan of HBO’s Succession, you’ve been promised a “blood sacrifice” tonight.
This landscape littered with scapegoats is, ironically enough, a land of opportunity. Management wants to get young players on the field for extra cap-feathers on evaluation day. Look no further than San Diego, where Fernando Tatis and Chris Paddack may have saved A.J. Preller from a moment on the chopping block even though everyone else got canned.
All that is to say, even with service-time suppression suffocating our game, kids like these in the Top 150 can still come quick.
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