Eric Hosmer, Top 100 Hitters, 2018 Fantasy Baseball

This lede is for Eric Hosmer’s (1B, #94) eyes only. Everyone else can scroll down to the rankings and comment on how Scooter Gennett deserves to be #1 overall. Is it just Eric and I now? Okay good. Eric. E-Dog. HOZ. My guy. You’re 94th. On a list of 100. If this keeps up–you’ll be #101 on a list of 100. That means you aren’t here. Or maybe you are if I can’t limit my list to 100 again for some reason. You have four hits in July. Four! That’s the same amount of Emmy nominations Queer Eye for the Straight Guy just got! For the Queer Eye squad, all things just keep getting better! For you, if you don’t start hitting less ground balls (62%!!!) things will just keep getting worse! If you keep striking out at the highest rate of your career (22.6%!) things will just keep getting worse! And if you don’t go back to your former approach to hitting — things will just keep getting worse for you…

Top 100 Hitters

GREEN: Rising | BLUE: New Additions | RED: Falling

RANK	NAME	TEAM	POSITION	LAST WEEK
1	Mike Trout	LAA	OF	1
2	Mookie Betts	BOS	OF	2
3	Jose Ramirez	CLE	2B/3B	3
4	Francisco Lindor	CLE	SS	4
5	J.D. Martinez	BOS	OF	5
6	Andrew Benintendi	BOS	OF	13
7	Manny Machado	BAL	3B	6
8	Nolan Arenado	COL	3B	7
9	Jose Altuve	HOU	2B	8
10	Aaron Judge	NYY	OF	9
11	Charlie Blackmon	COL	OF	10
12	Paul Goldschmidt	ARI	1B	11
13	Trea Turner	WAS	SS	12
14	Jean Segura	SEA	SS	14
15	Javier Baez	CHC	SS/2B	15
16	Alex Bregman	HOU	SS/3B	18
17	Freddie Freeman	ATL	1B	16
18	Giancarlo Stanton	NYY	OF	17
19	Eugenio Suarez	CIN	3B	19
20	Cody Bellinger	LAD	1B/OF	20
21	Eddie Rosario	MIN	OF	21
22	Mitch Haniger	SEA	OF	22
23	Ozzie Albies	ATL	2B	23
24	Bryce Harper	WAS	OF	24
25	Starling Marte	PIT	OF	25
26	Trevor Story	COL	SS	26
27	Christian Yelich	MIL	OF	27
28	Lorenzo Cain	MIL	OF	28
29	Carlos Correa	HOU	SS	29
30	Jesus Aguilar	MIL	1B	36
31	Scooter Gennett	CIN	2B	31
32	George Springer	HOU	OF	30
33	Shin-Soo Choo	TEX	OF	32
34	Nelson Cruz	SEA	DH	33
35	Max Muncy	LAD	1B/3B	48
36	Joey Votto	CIN	1B	34
37	Xander Bogaerts	BOS	SS	39
38	Khris Davis	OAK	OF	35
39	Tommy Pham	STL	OF	40
40	Brandon Belt	SF	OF	41
41	Edwin Encarnacion	CLE	1B	42
42	Didi Gregorius	NYY	SS	43
43	Nick Markakis	ATL	OF	44
44	Tim Anderson	CWS	SS	46
45	Justin Upton	ARI	OF	49
46	Matt Kemp	LAD	OF	50
47	Nicholas Castellanos	DET	3B/OF	51
48	Anthony Rendon	WAS	3B	59
49	Anthony Rizzo	CHC	1B	37
50	Kris Bryant	CHC	3B	38
51	AJ Pollock	ARI	OF	52
52	Michael Brantley	CLE	OF	53
53	Aaron Hicks	NYY	OF	54
54	Rhys Hoskins	PHI	1B/OF	47
55	Brian Dozier	MIN	2B	61
56	Mike Moustakas	KC	3B	57
57	Ender Inciarte	ATL	OF	45
58	Travis Shaw	MIL	3B	58
59	Juan Soto	WAS	OF	66
60	Cesar Hernandez	PHI	2B	60
61	Odubel Herrera	PHI	OF	62
62	Daniel Murphy	WAS	2B	63
63	Elvis Andrus	TEX	SS	64
64	Dee Gordon	SEA	2B/OF	65
65	Wil Myers	SD	1B/OF	75
66	Jose Abreu	CHW	1B	56
67	Ian Desmond	COL	1B/OF	83
68	Jose Martinez	STL	1B	67
69	Nomar Mazara	TEX	OF	55
70	D.J. LeMahieu	COL	2B	69
71	Ronald Acuna	ATL	OF	70
72	Adam Eaton	WAS	OF	71
73	Yoan Moncada	CWS	2B	73
74	Gleyber Torres	NYY	2B/SS	74
75	JT Realmuto	MIA	C	76
76	Matt Olson	OAK	1B	77
77	Evan Gattis	HOU	C	78
78	Brandon Nimmo	NYM	OF	79
79	Joey Gallo	TEX	3B/1B	68
80	Whit Merrifield	KC	2B	88
81	Jed Lowrie	OAK	2B	84
82	Asdrubal Cabrera	NYM	2B/SS/3B	85
83	Eduardo Escobar	MIN	3B/SS	86
84	Chris Taylor	LAD	2B/OF/SS	72
85	Brett Gardner	NYY	OF	97
86	Andrew McCutchen	SF	OF	87
87	Justin Smoak	TOR	1B	93
88	Carlos Santana	PHI	1B	80
89	Kyle Schwarber	CHC	OF	91
90	David Peralta	ARI	OF	92
91	Yangervis Solarte	TOR	2B/SS/3B	94
92	Gary Sanchez	NYY	C	95
93	Adrian Beltre	TEX	3B	82
94	Eric Hosmer	SD	1B	81
95	Andrelton Simmons	LAA	SS	96
96	Matt Carpenter	STL	1B/2B/3B	98
97	Brian Anderson	MIA	3B/OF	100
98	Gregory Polanco	PIT	OF	NR
99	Yuli Gurriel	HOU	1B	NR
100	Jesse Winker	CIN	OF	NR

Falling

#54, Rhys Hoskins, 1B/OF: Oh Rhys. I had you pegged as both the fantasy MVP and real life MVP going into this year. His 49/14/56/4/.252 line isn’t terrible, but he hasn’t homered in almost two weeks and is hitting only .212 over that time. I’m still a Rhys-liever and he’s still killing it in OBP leagues — but if he doesn’t pick up his power production he’ll continue to slip. You know who might help his production? A young man by the name of Manny Machado hitting in the lineup with him instead of the also-slipping Carlos Santana. . #PonderingEmoji
#57, Ender Inciarte, OF: Your honor, I am openly admitting that I am completely guilty of overvaluing Inciarte’s stolen bases. Over the past 30 days he only has three stolen bases and a .240 batting average. I throw myself on the mercy of the comment section court! Part of the problem is Inciarte is completely perplexed at the concept of a left-handed pitcher (.208 AVG against lefties vs. .256 against righties.) He’ll be losing ABs against lefty starters unless the Braves bring in guest instructor Tom Glavine to pepper the batting cage strike-zone with pinpoint fastballs against Inciarte.

Rising

#6, Andrew Benintendi, OF, BOS: In last week’s edition of the Top 100 Hitters, one commenter, Bryan McDonald, asked in the comments, “Where do you think Benintendi goes in drafts next year?” Which is a great and really interesting question. This year, his ESPN ADP is 47.5 which is around the 4th round. Benintendi is living up to his pedigree this year with the potential to end the season with a line of 100/25/100/25/.290. What we’re all seeing now is the emergency of a late first round draft pick who only turned 24 nine days ago.
#35, Max Muncy, 1B/3B/LAD: I don’t know what to say anymore guys. Sorry — the guy just can’t miss. Where will he be drafted next year? If he continues this hot season he’ll definitely be one of the most debated players in the pre-season. Similar to Matt Olson and Hoskins before this year — yes they had hot debuts, but how much of it is fluky and how much of it is for real-y? Oh and I forgot to mention he’s one game away from getting second base eligibility as well.
#65, Wil Myers, 1B/OF: I’ll admit that Myers was in danger of slipping in the rankings before this past week. In the 14 games directly after his return from the DL he was only hitting .255 with 1 HR. Ho-hum. Well, in the 7 games since he’s hit 6 HRs with a .357 average. If he’s got his rhythm back he and his owners are in for a scorching post-ASB performance.